Re: some flaws in the questions and answers section of the first chapter
- From: "Androcles" <androc1es@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Jan 2006 16:14:52 -0800
Mike Mainville wrote:
> The photons always travel at the speed c.
Drooling idiot.
> When light passes through a medium, the average speed of the light
> propagating throught the material is less than c
> because the photons are absorbed by the atoms in the materil and then
> retransitted. There is a delay of the order of 10^-8 s
Can't even spell 'material' or 'transmitted'.
> between the retransmitions.
Can't spell transmission either.
This delay is what causes the speed of light to
> decrease in a medium.
> When the light exits the medium, the delays do not exist anymore. Hence, the
> speed of light returns to c in a vacuum.
Go away, child.
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/how_to_be_as_smart_as_einstein.htm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/people_v_Baez.htm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sundials.htm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/RR_C7/RelativityRevealed.htm
>
>
> "The old Sorcerer" <vanquish@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:9Rayf.120707$D47.94769@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <StilenX@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1137120216.984733.115190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Der alte Hexenmeister ist:
> > Sorcerer Androcles Dumbledore, Headmaster, hogwarts.physics
> > school for zauberlehrlings.
> > "One muggle's magic is another sorcerer's engineering"
> >
> >
> http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/how_to_be_as_smart_as_einstein.h
> tm
> > http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/people_v_Baez.htm
> > http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sundials.htm
> >
> >
> > > 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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