Re: Light as a particle in a wave?

In article <1123947213.953984.18550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Scismgenie <Scismgenie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>IF Light can display properies as both a particle and a waveform, would
>that negate the threshold of Light as the ultimate speed limit of
>mass?
>
>Or does it imply that anything going AT the speed of light loses all
>Mass characteristics?

If it has mass, it can't go the speed of light. That's not quite the same
as losing mass characteristics. Except that if you look at the
relativistic energy equation,

E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2

when pc >> mc^2, the mc^2 term can often be dropped. That can be done,
for instance, to simplify calculations of the way electrons will scatter
in accelerators.

>
>Is the amout of energy EXPENDED to accelerate mass to the speed of
>light considered to be infinite? (exponentially taking MORE energy to
>push a smaller mass faster?) Is there an Energy barrier of diminishing
>returns?

p=mv/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), so inserting into the above,

E^2 = m^2 c^4 + m^2 v^2 c^2 / (1-v^2/c^2)

As v->c, E->inf, although not quite exponentially.

>
>In other-words the Speed of Light is probably FASTER than the practical
>ability to gain acceleration? (except on a molecular scale?)
>
>If Light is a particle, and that particle is scillating (frequency)
>and the frequency of oscillation is longer than a reference point, do
>different frequency oscillations cause the particles to move at
>different speeds in relation to the crossover point of teh oscillation?
>If so does that indicate that Light particles of a longer wavelength
>are traveling faster tham shorteones to cover the same distance of
>linear travel in the same time reference, (actually covering more
>distance because of wider oscillations?) Or it is represented that the
>particle travels at a constant speed linearly, but oscilates
>perpendicular to the direction of travel a greater vaariance from the
>crossover reference? (wobble?)
>
>If a light particle oscillates, what does it oscillate AROUND, would it
>be like an Orbit with a complementary mass to oscillate around?

Light is not a little pulsating BB. The wave nature of light is not a
wiggly path that the light takes, but variations in field strength. Light
goes in a straight line.

--
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is
poetry, imagination." -- Max Planck
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