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Dale, I did not intend at all to insult you.
But what I feel strange is your few line answers
to problems that have baffled theoretical
physicists for long. Photon mass has been a big
issue in Theoretical physics in the wake of
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, and if
in recent years it has been explained on the
basis of photons having rest mass of zero and
only having relativistic mass, it has been to
make it compatible with Einstein’s theory rather
than the other way round. Because with the
mathematics involved with the Einstein’s Gamma
factor, there cannot be any other explanation.
Anything howsoever small its mass will have an
infinite mass at the light speed. But this again
is a philosophically questionable explanation.
If there is matter, it must have mass, howsoever
small it is. This goes to the credit of Einstein
that his theory leads to singularities that have
zero size with infinite mass and matter having
some size but no mass. And lease first go in the
history of this debate on Photon massbefore
making your comments. Today you may challenge
me; but time will come when Einstein’s light
speed barrier will have to be given away; for it
creates more problems than it solves. And of
course the question remains (This question has
been raised by Hawking also); how the natural
laws all over the universe are same when there
is not enough time since Big Bang to have been
any communication between them. These are
questions that will continue to be debated for
long and your few-line dismissals will not bury
them. Hawking has even given an example. He says
that suppose a question is put to multiple
students, and if they all give exactly the same
answers, there must have been some form of
communication between them.
What explains the harmonious system despite no
way of effective communication is a question
that has to be answered by current theoretical
physicists if the current understanding has to
survive. And it will not be late to say that the
current sciences especially questions related to
theoretical physics and evolution is in a very
early stage of development.
Javed |