On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, blah wrote:
> From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, blah wrote:
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> > Not from the photons perspective, from a photons perspective there is
> > -no- time.
>
> A photon has no "perspective".
Yes it does. It is a particle and it interacts with the rest of the
cosmos. The cosmos views it, it views the cosmos.
> Anyone that wishes to have the short version and skip the detailed
> corrections to misconceptions, they may note simply that an observer
> in special relativity compares their results with other observers
> through a lorentz transform.
The photon -is- an observer. It observes the device, just as the device
observes it.
There is a 'c' and a 'v' in -any- Lorentz transform. Do the math with v=c.
'v' is -always- in relation to 'c' because 'c' is -always constant-.
> There exists no lorentz transform by which any observer may transform
> coordinates to a photon,
Really why?
> It's called relativity because it assumes no absolute frame against
> which speeds must be referenced.
Wrong. -ALL- speeds are measured against c. That -is- the whole point of
Lorentz transforms. 'c' is -always- c.
c is a -constant-. Therefore it -is absolute-. There is no -space-
constant, to that I will agree.
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