On 5/22/06, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@microbrix.com> wrote:
> What got me about this, was the flavor oscillation in neutrinos.
> The theory was that if they had mass, they couldn't go at light speed,

There is also a theory in which the light have mass and one kind of
light it's "heaviest" than the other... so depends by the perspective
you're interpreting the facts.

Vasile




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> therefore could change states. But if they were truly massless and traveling
> at C, then time would hold still for them, and they couldn't change states.
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> On 5/21/06, Matthew Miller <namiller2@naxs.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:00:53PM -0400, David VanHorn wrote:
> > > Ok, sanity check time.  I've had another one of those disturbing
> > thoughts..
> > >
> > > Photons travel at the speed of light, and no other speed (in a given
> > > media).  Correct?
> > > Time slows for a particle as it approaches C, and at C a particle does
> > not
> > > observe time passing at all. Correct?
> > >
> > > So how can a "timeless" particle interact with anything?  It would
> > either
> > > always be interacting, or never be.
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > Matthew
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