Re: Steel Man of Einstein & Relativity.

Le 10/09/2024 à 22:03, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit :

R.H.: I don't think photons have mass or that an ether exists or space
curves so I don't think light is affected by gravity at all.

That's what I think too.
As for photons, after forty years of thinking about the subject, I strongly agree with the recent thinking of a physicist whose name I didn't have time to note, and who thinks that it is possible that the photon does not exist.
We must have clear thoughts about these things. For me, the photon is only an instantaneous transaction of a quantity of energy between two entities A and B in the frame of reference of B.
That is to say in the frame of reference of the receiver.
It is the receiver that instantly tears the quantum from the source.
We will say: "It is not possible because it is indeed the source that heats up before emitting" and the emitting role comes from it.
You know Richard Hachel, and if you have a minimum of intelligence (which I doubt in my peers) you will understand very well why this idea does not hold, and why it is obviously the receiver that tears the "prepared" quantum from the source.
In short, a body absolutely isolated in an empty universe, and "heated to white" could not emit anything at all.
I was talking about the frame of reference of B. This implies that B is not in the frame of reference of A, and that the notion of "present time", or simultaneity is relative by positional change.
But I have already explained that a hundred times.
R.H.