Re: some flaws in the questions and answers section of the first chapter

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> The Final Theory starts off as with some very interesting theories,
> hower in the questions and answers part of the first chapter, I noticed
> this question being asked:
>
> Q: Light slows as it passes through water or
> glass, causing it to bend, but how can it
> return to light-speed on its own once it exits?
>
> A: This is impossible in today's science. No object in nature
> can speed up of its own accord after being slowed. A bullet
> doesn't spontaneously speed up after it is slowed by passing
> through a wooden block, so how does a photon of light
> mysteriously return to its original speed once it exits a glass
> block?

Glass blocks are not wood blocks.
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/speeding%20up%20light.JPG

> Also, continuously shining a light beam through a glass
> block will heat it, creating the further mystery that the beam
> actually loses energy as it passes through the glass, yet still
> manages to accelerate to its original speed upon exit.

Not at all, it doesn't leave if it heats the block.

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> Today's
> science cannot explain this mysterious everyday occurrence.

Of course it can.


>
> actually, to my understanding (which I must admit is somewhat limited)


That's the problem.



> the light is not slowing down, but instead is changing direction. An
> object that has changes direction could apear to be slowing down as
> it's velocity has changed, however it's speed still remains the same.
> Two objects travelling at the same speed can reach the same point from
> the same starting point at differnt times depending on the path taken.
> I would like to add that light actually does add energy through passing
> through ojects, and it can be seen in the case of a peice of paper
> covering a flash light - the light is weaker as seen through th
> flashlight than it is when seen through just air with no paper. The
> paper will also heat up over time, showing that there is in fact some
> energy exchage.
>


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