On Sun, 21 May 2006, David VanHorn wrote:

>> I don't have an answer, but only a suggestion. It may be possible to
>> remove
>> a lot of the trouble by considering the photon as an electromagnetic wave
>> and not as a particle; think about the whole wave-particle duality idea...
>
> That has problems too. How does an entity that is frozen in time, oscillate?

Freezing is a concept that does not exist in quantic physics afaik. 
Neither does oscillation, by the way ;-) And the speed of light is a 
hard limit that should be seen in the light of the limits of the 
expressions that define it (and which are bound by Heisenberg's 
uncertainty principle).

Peter
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