Hi.
Being a physics-crazy person that I am { no, that does NOT mean expertise
... just simple craze .. plain ...}, I couldn't resist replying to this
one. You can ignore this mail (you have been warned. All flames can come
to me directly .. not on list :)
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> When yo say a light beam, you are talking about the ray theory of light -
> the theory we use to explain reflection and refraction.
>
> Photons actually fit into the corpuscular or more popularly, the particle
> theory of light. We could then also go into particle-wave duality, but
> that gets more involved.
Actually speaking, photons don't quite fit into the corpuscular theory.
The corpuscular theory was way different, talking about different sizes
for different colours. When you say corpuscles, you actually mean some
massive particle. With photons, it's some "probability density" or
something.
> keep moving faster than light, never able to move slower. Tachyons are
> subatomic particles that move faster than light albeit in two dimensions
> only. (The word Tachyon comes from the Greek Tachos or something meaning
> fast).
I am not too sure about the two dimensions thing about tachyons, but
tachyons, since they are on the "other" side, they travel backwards in
time. Hence, if you can tap them, you can see the future! ;-)
{ That's why I call my box tachyon. "come, see the future!" ;-) }
I stop here.
JaJu
Madness takes its toll.
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