Re: Why doesn't light travel at infinite speed?

On Feb 23, 4:11 pm, "skillz...@xxxxxxxxx" <skillz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We observe that objects moving relative to us age more slowly than
objects that are stationary with respect to us. An object observed to
be moving at c doesn't age at all. The speed affects the observed
aging, not vice-versa. The fact that aging stops for objects moving
at c insead of at an infinite speed, is just the way the universe
behaves; there is no answer as to why.

Thanks for the response. I guess I'm just curious why I don't see more
research on why this is because it seems pretty fundamental. For
example, I thought muon decay lasted much longer (i.e. it was able to
travel much further than it should) because of time dilation effects
due to them moving at close to the speed of light. If you apply the
same time dilation to light, it would seem to imply that light should
be everywhere at once and yet we don't perceive that.

The reason I ask is that I don't undestand how light and gravity
(seemingly very different things) all appear to move at the same speed
when it seems like both should really be moving at infinite speed. I
wonder if they both really operate at infinite speed, but we only
perceive them at the speed of light because of some unknown reason
(much like we perceive certain particle decays to be much longer than
we should).

Wormley and Cardinale learned their physics by reading
H.G. Wells novels. If you want to learn a theory based
on the propagation of light, then you have to learn something
about light.

http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/light/index.htm
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/D.Jefferies/antennas.html


Time-independent Maxwell equations
Time-dependent Maxwell's equations
Relativity and electromagnetism
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/lectures.html

Maxwell's equations in classic electrodynamics
(classic field theory)_
a) Maxwell equations (no movement),
b) Maxwell equations (with moved bodies)
http://www.wolfram-stanek.de/maxwell_equations.htm#maxwell_classic_extended

Ya don't choose a physician because he has seen the film
"Frankenstein" do ya? ;-)

Sue...




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