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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Light
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 13:53:47 EDT
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> 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