Re: Time From Light's Frame of Reference


"bernardz" <bernardz@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Say a box existed with perfect mirrors on each side. Inside two beams
| of light are going back and forwards so when one hits one side the
| other beam hits the other side. There is no momentum in the box.

The photons themselves have momentum
(it is the only way the silly time travel physicists can say it has no mass)
:)


| Yet you could count how many times the beam of light hits one wall. It
| is a clock but it has no momentum.

photons have momentum.
They can not impart energy without such.




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