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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: History of Light and Magnetism
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:14:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 14:14:00 1985
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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).  Or another way of looking at it is that the photon wave length 
>goes to infinity as the background gravity field goes to zero.

This is meaningless, since a photon has mass, and thus generates a gravity
field.

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

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