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Apparently Dr. Jamil
sees nothing wrong with his accusations that
others are mudslinging while doing the same
thing himself. His accusation against me, saying
that I know nothing of physics and just do a
Google search, is grossly insulting.
As has been noted, he is a medical doctor while
I am an engineer. At the very least, one should
acknowledge of the two of us, I am the one more
likely to be acquainted with physics. Certainly
his outrageous and extensive citation of
Michelson H. Morely should put to rest any
discussion about the quality of his research. To
put it mildly (and as respectfully as I can
muster), we have a charlatan quoting a lunatic.
Moreover, he has the nerve to post his
remarkably silly paper twice on this list, as if
repetition makes it more substantive. However,
since he seems confused by photons, I'll sum it
up for him again:
1) a photon has a rest mass
of zero.
2) a photon carries non-zero energy.
3) because (even in Newtonian physics) this
leads to a division by zero in calculating the
velocity, the photon can only travel at the
speed of light (an "infinite" velocity because
time stops at that speed).
4) a photon carries inertia and is affected by
gravity. Its inertial mass is non-zero,
equivalent to its energy (as per e=mc^2, or if
you prefer, m=e/c^2, which shows how incredibly
small the inertial mass of a photon is).
There is no "problem" of the photon's mass to be
resolved. It works exactly as Einstein's
theories say it should. Take something with a
non-zero rest mass and you will never accelerate
it to the speed of light. Neutrinos have a very
small but non-zero rest mass and travel
very fast. Electrons are much heavier and quite
difficult to accelerate to near light speed.
Protons are heavier still and therefore even
more difficult. The latest colliders, like
CERN's Large Hadron Collider, are tens of
kilometers in circumference and use enough
energy to power a city just to accelerate
protons to high speed. At 99.99% of the speed of
light, relativistic effects overwhelm the
physics of Newton's time.
His source also notes that Einstein's
mathematics give the same results as Lorentz's.
Again, this is to be expected. Lorentz proposed
a method of resolving the Michelson/Morley
results (strange how Jamil's source has a name
so close to a famous team of physicists, isn't
it?) that yielded correct results but could not
explain why it was happening.
Einstein formulated an explanation that yielded
the correct calculations. That is why his theory
survives while Lorentz's calculations are
historical footnotes.
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