Hi:
All the comments are interesting! I had a point
by point all set up on this before anybody else answered your post, and I
changed my mind and reset the thread. I'm glad I did!
The mathematical model of GR works from zero to
infinity. The conceptually related SRT part is there to keep us straight
and remind us we live in a finite universe which goes NOT from zero to
infinity but ALMOST zero to infinity...and wow is that a big almost!
At the other end of the spectrum, I had a very
interesting exchange a few months ago with an engineer and very good
mathematician who had the Einsteinian universe infinite in mass and as
flat at a Euclidean pancake.
And now we have a person who starts (and ends)
with the massless photon and has the entire universe floating and
flying at tachyon speeds like a flying saucer!
Anybody who thinks the universe is
counterintuitive the way Einstein modeled and intended it, ought to try
infinite mass and massless photons! Many professional people who blithely
speak of the massless photon to avoid the counterintuitive implications of
relativity ought to have their noses rubbed in this fellows work!
I was at a lecture once where a professional
scientist spoke of the massless photon as he carefully pointed the solar
cells of his handheld scientific calculator at the fluorescent lights in
the ceiling! A massless particle or wave is a blatant contradiction in
terms,and a conceptual violation of the SRT/GR concept, but the other day
I saw that contradiction again for the umteenth time in a reprint on the
GR postings.
Energy has mass and mass is energy...in the SRT
GR concept anyway.
The fellow in this site made other serious
conceptual errors too. Nothing exists outside a GR universe...by
definition- not even his flying saucer.
The graphs he had posted looked just like the
ones we got in High School when we "levitated" iron bars with
electromagnets and gradually increased the voltage.
The site was just plain glitzy...is he selling
electromagnets as flying saucers? Forget what he is "levitating". The
whole contraption taken together, wouldn't weigh a milligram less...at any
voltage from the frame of the floor.
A parting comment: The photon in relativity is
a most amazing thing. From our frame it is almost (get it...ALMOST
massless) and infinitesimal, yet it is connected with every other photon
in a matrix of complex and varying energy densities which encompasses the
universe (action at a distance). In the S7 concept the photon construct we
call ourselves stretches 60 billion years to the other side of the
universe and completes the inverse mapping necessary to guarantee the
survival of the universe and ourselves, forever.
The photon is truly a marvel of engineering,
just as the universe itself is a marvel of engineering...but the photon is
not massless, and his "findings", based as they are on false assumptions
about the nature of the universe, are very questionable indeed. I suggest
he have a careful, basic look at the basic concepts of SRT and GR.
Best Wishes, Sam Cox
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