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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#281  Postby Arthur » Jun 04, 2014 5:36 pm

Thank You for Your question, David McCulloch.
The word "photon" suggests a particle. In particle physics usually particles are ending with "...on" like "electron", "proton", "neutron" etc. And a particle suggests "mass". Every particle has got a certain mass, that is not equal zero. If something doesn't have mass, it is no particle.
And this is the so called "photon". Light is a part of an "emission-field" and this doesn't have got "mass". This part of an "emission-field" You can call "quantum", but please don't name it for a particle. It definitely is no particle, but an electromagnetic wave, that is spreading radial all over the space and is not located at a certain volume within the space, like a particle is.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#282  Postby CdesignProponentsist » Jun 05, 2014 7:01 am

'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#283  Postby Evolving » Jun 05, 2014 9:41 am

Arthur wrote:...a particle suggests "mass"...


Mass, like charge, is just a feature that some particles have.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#284  Postby Evolving » Jun 05, 2014 10:32 am

campermon wrote:^That's a big sum.

Haven't got a clue where it comes from or what it means!

:beer:


Any chance of seeing a derivation of this formula?
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#285  Postby kennyc » Jun 05, 2014 1:01 pm

Evolving wrote:
campermon wrote:^That's a big sum.

Haven't got a clue where it comes from or what it means!

:beer:


Any chance of seeing a derivation of this formula?


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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#286  Postby Evolving » Jun 07, 2014 9:21 pm

Evolving wrote:
campermon wrote:^That's a big sum.

Haven't got a clue where it comes from or what it means!

:beer:


Any chance of seeing a derivation of this formula?


Apparently not.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#287  Postby campermon » Jun 07, 2014 9:26 pm

kennyc wrote:
Evolving wrote:
campermon wrote:^That's a big sum.

Haven't got a clue where it comes from or what it means!

:beer:


Any chance of seeing a derivation of this formula?


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#288  Postby epepke » Jun 08, 2014 9:40 am

CdesignProponentsist wrote:'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.


Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#289  Postby Cito di Pense » Jun 08, 2014 11:17 am

epepke wrote:
CdesignProponentsist wrote:'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.


Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.


Anyway, even though 'discreetness' is in the dictionaries, 'discretion' is what I prefer. As we all know, indiscretion is the better part of squalor.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#290  Postby kennyc » Jun 08, 2014 11:33 am

Cito di Pense wrote:
epepke wrote:
CdesignProponentsist wrote:'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.


Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.


Anyway, even though 'discreetness' is in the dictionaries, 'discretion' is what I prefer. As we all know, indiscretion is the better part of squalor.


And if squalor exist then surely it is in Mumbai the source of all curved time and space.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#291  Postby twistor59 » Jun 08, 2014 12:29 pm

kennyc wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:
epepke wrote:
CdesignProponentsist wrote:'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.


Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.


Anyway, even though 'discreetness' is in the dictionaries, 'discretion' is what I prefer. As we all know, indiscretion is the better part of squalor.


And if squalor exist then surely it is in Mumbai the source of all curved time and space.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/081297932X&tag ... nskepti-20


I thought Calcutta was where the black hole was to be found, not Mumbai...
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#292  Postby VazScep » Jun 08, 2014 1:22 pm

epepke wrote:Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.
For ages, I thought that the fundamental concept of quantum mechanics was that position and momentum were properties that were free of charge.
Here we go again. First, we discover recursion.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#293  Postby kennyc » Jun 08, 2014 1:25 pm

twistor59 wrote:
kennyc wrote:
Cito di Pense wrote:
epepke wrote:

Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.


Anyway, even though 'discreetness' is in the dictionaries, 'discretion' is what I prefer. As we all know, indiscretion is the better part of squalor.


And if squalor exist then surely it is in Mumbai the source of all curved time and space.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/081297932X&tag ... nskepti-20


I thought Calcutta was where the black hole was to be found, not Mumbai...


Ah, but the curvature starts beyond the event horizon. <smug>
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#294  Postby Cito di Pense » Jun 08, 2014 1:29 pm

epepke wrote:
CdesignProponentsist wrote:'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.


Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.


I love the way you lepton that mistake.
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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#295  Postby Ironclad » Jun 08, 2014 1:33 pm

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Re: So can someone explain curved space to me?

#296  Postby DavidMcC » Jun 08, 2014 1:37 pm

Cito di Pense wrote:
epepke wrote:
CdesignProponentsist wrote:'Particle' describes discreetness, not mass. A photon is a single quantum of light and a particle.


Discreteness. People on dating sites get this wrong all the time.


I love the way you lepton that mistake.

:lol: :lol:
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