On 3 June, 15:11, DarkwaterBlight <[email protected]> wrote:
> When you turn your back to the sun and look at the ground in front of
> you, you see your shadow. What is it made of?!
>

It's made by an area where fewer photons have reached the ground than
the area around it.  The shadow is simply caused by a photon density
differential, nothing more, nothing less.  And here you thought that
was a tricky question, I bet.  ;-)

> On Jun 3, 1:11 am, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > wow..this makes me regret leaving science for humanities.. you cant have
> > everything can you
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> > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On 1 June, 11:03, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > really! awesome.. i totally had no idea of that..luno solar actitvity
> > > > influencing us so..'may' is a pretty strong word in itself though..
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> > > Well, it's difficult to prove.  Although there's no doubt that gravity
> > > has far-reaching effects.  Technically, it reaches across the universe
> > > and every particle of matter that HAS mass has some gravitational
> > > effects on every other particle.  Also note that, while photons have
> > > no 'rest mass', one NEVER sees a photon at rest.  Rather, they move at
> > > near the speed of light (I say 'near' in order to account for some
> > > slowing that occurs as they move through whatever medium they are
> > > moving through, whether that be our atmosphere or the lens of a
> > > telescope and ultimately the cornea and lens of our eye).  So, while I
> > > expect you are familiar with E=MC^2 as the relationship between energy
> > > and mass, there is another equation that must also come into play with
> > > respect to photons and that is E=Fh where E is energy, F is the
> > > frequency of the photon and 'h' is the Planck Constant.  So, by using
> > > these two equations together, one can see that if you take the
> > > frequency of a photon, F, and multiply it by the Planck Constant, you
> > > yield the 'energy' of that photon.  Divide that by C^2, the speed of
> > > light in a vacuum, and you have calculated the 'mass' of the photon.
> > > It's my belief that the supposed 'dark matter' is nothing more than
> > > the gravitational trails of the countless photons moving across space-
> > > time.  The more space-time that one looks through, the more trails of
> > > photon have crossed that path and, thus, the more 'dark matter' you
> > > see.  Note, you only see the photons that are heading towards your
> > > eyes, those that cross across that path are NOT seen and it is THESE
> > > that I believe form the basis of the elusive dark matter that accounts
> > > for a huge amount of energy that simply passes across our line of
> > > sight.  Because we don't 'see' these photons (because they aren't
> > > headed in our direction), they only show up by virtue of their
> > > gravitational effects, thus they 'appear' as dark matter.
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> > > > On 6/1/10, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > On 30 May, 08:45, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > I was wondering if astrology is for real..i mean is there a fragment
> > > > > > of truth in it.. even though it seems completely irrational...does
> > > the
> > > > > > fact that it has been there for ages give it legitimacy..or is it
> > > pure
> > > > > > fluff feeding off people uncertainties about life...
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> > > > > It could well be an aspect of the general holography of the universe.
> > > > > That is, there are aspects ofthe universe which reflect the entirety,
> > > > > if one is open to looking for these reflections and know how to
> > > > > interpret them.  One thing IS for sure, gravity's effect is real and
> > > > > carries across space-time from one end to the other.  We know that the
> > > > > luno-solar gravity accounts for the tides and the word 'lunacy'
> > > > > implies that those tidal effects may (strictly MAY!!) also affect our
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