Big Bang and Cosmic Theory

by **David Horn** » Oct 6, 2003 @ 9:48pm

Actually, light doesn't have mass, but it does have momentum. (the photons themselves.) I suspect, though I'd have to check my notes to make sure:

p = (Plancks Constant) / lambda * c

Also, but that thing hasn't travelled faster than the speed of light. Sorry, Moose, but it's over enthusiastic journalism

"The backward wave, traveling at 300 times c, arrives at the near side of the chamber just in time to meet the incoming wave. The peaks of one wave overlap the troughs of the other, so they cancel each other out and nothing remains. What has really happened is that the incoming wave has "paid back" the cesium atoms that lent energy on the other side of the chamber.

Someone who looked only at the beginning and end of the experiment would see only a pulse of light that somehow jumped forward in time by moving faster than c."

It's not the light wave that's travelling fast, it's a ripple backwards and forwards. Unless you have a background in physics, it's probably not good for you to read this. If something had travelled faster than the speed of light, do you not think that it would be more widely publicised?

by **sandmann** » Oct 6, 2003 @ 9:58pm

by **James S** » Oct 6, 2003 @ 10:05pm

by **sandmann** » Oct 6, 2003 @ 10:09pm

by **sponge** » Oct 6, 2003 @ 10:47pm

by **Warren** » Oct 7, 2003 @ 12:39am

by **damian** » Oct 7, 2003 @ 12:42am

by **James S** » Oct 7, 2003 @ 12:57am

by **Warren** » Oct 7, 2003 @ 1:03am

And maybe your face is attached to your ass, but the gas from it skews your observations.

by **damian** » Oct 7, 2003 @ 1:03am

it's undefined, impossible. Just like x^2 == -1 if x is a real is impossible. What non-english explanation do you want? Do you think all the mathematicians in this world both present and past are all idiots?

by **James S** » Oct 7, 2003 @ 1:13am

Yes, I do, I believe they're flawed. All of them.

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