Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!tan From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Light Message-ID: <790@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 13:53:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.790 Posted: Tue Jul 9 13:53:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 07:48:46 EDT References: <344@sri-arpa.ARPA> <1157@mnetor.UUCP> <151@prometheus.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 41 > The speed of light is a constant in vacuum at given gravitational field density. > In general :-) it speeds up infinitely in a void where no matter exists > (gets lost). WRONG: The speed of light is independent of the gravitational field density. > Or another way of looking at it is that the photon wave length > goes to infinity as the background gravity field goes to zero. Or another > way of thinking about it is the the framing rate (quantized time) goes to > infinity. WRONG AGAIN: In the absence of a gravitational field, the photon wave length is also constant. > For people living at sea level it (the speed of light) even varies a little > because of the tide and the moon. WRONG AGAIN: It does not. > So remember the laws of physics aren't > LAW they are consensus guesses OR consensus convention, because otherwise > things get complicated. > > In fact it kind of looks like gravity acts like it has some of the character- > istics fantasized for an ether. The ether was kind of a neat idea because it > made things like sound waves and light waves a lot more analogous. > > That is aEther would be a sort of gas like medium for the transmission of > light. The above statements have no well-defined physical content. > Gravity is grainy. But grains of what? Well that's another story for > yet another episode in this saga of Reality vs Physics. Who will win?? > Paul [Koloc] I suggest that you start your own private newsgroup net.Reality and keep this garbage out of net.physics. -- Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan