Yes, but I would put it this way: an infinite force is required to accelerate a non-light particle to the speed light.
Harry Dean McGowan wrote: > Am I incorrect in assuming that a particle travelling at the speed of light > has infinite mass ? > > > Dean > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Michel Jullian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Subject: [Vo]: Re: Di-Ozone > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:09:43 +0100 > > Sure it is quantized, but this doesn't make it "apparent". > > Michel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Di-Ozone > > >> >> If light was literally a projectile, then it should be literally subject >> to the laws of mechanics and momentum changes should vary continuously. >> However, we know empirically that light of a particular wavelength >> can only bring about discrete changes of momentum. >> >> >> Harry >> >> Michel Jullian wrote: >> >>> Well, it does bounce back from the object (e.g. solar sail) it imparted >>> momentum to, with total momentum being conserved and all. >>> >>> Michel >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> >>> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:09 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Re: Di-Ozone >>> >>> >>>> In my natural philosophy, light has an _apparent_ momentum, because the >>>> nature of light is such that it refuses to be subjected to a mechanical >>>> force. (I do mean "refuses" and not simply "resists"). >>>> >>>> Harry >>>> >>>> Michel Jullian wrote: >>>> >>>>> For a projectile what matters is momentum, and light does have > momentum, >>>>> that's what pushes solar sails. >>>>> >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure >>>>> >>>>> Michel >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "R.C.Macaulay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> >>>>> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 2:03 PM >>>>> Subject: [Vo]: Re: Di-Ozone >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Howdy Jones, >>>>>> >>>>>> You amaze me with your ability to stretch the elastic of the mind. > One >>>>>> must eat a heartly breakfast and tighten the safety belt before > launching >>>>>> into one of your posts <grin> that can range from rail guns to > Ormus... and >>>>>> that is a stretch. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now that light has been accepted as having "particle" or "weight", it > can >>>>>> be >>>>>> taken to the next step and think of light having "projectile force" >>>>>> qualities. A rail gun projectile would not necessarily require a > socalled >>>>>> "mass" ( I have always been abhorred by the term mass). A better >>>>>> constructed >>>>>> railgun would fire a " projectile of light"... hmmm.. a strange > beasty >>>>>> indeed.. Why so ? >>>>>> Because the projectile could be " tuned" to either/or focus or > impact. >>>>>> Strange account of a battle predicted centuries ago where the > flesh,eyes >>>>>> and >>>>>> tongue will rot while they are still standing ( bones remain) Zec: > 14. >>>>>> This >>>>>> description seeems to indicate a type of a ray gun, however, the > projectile >>>>>> does not knock the person off their feet.. only dissolves the flesh. >>>>>> >>>>>> You referred to Barry Carter's Subtleenergy website that mentions a > new >>>>>> method of producing O3 and O6 but does not describe the process. He > does >>>>>> describe the healing qualities of vortex induced ormus water. Reminds > me of >>>>>> the account of the angel that would "stir" or "trouble" the waters in > the >>>>>> pool. Whoever would be the first sick person to enter the pool > thereafter >>>>>> would be healed. If the "stirring" means inducing a water vortex and > only >>>>>> the first person would be healed, could this mean the vortex was > destroyed >>>>>> by entering the pool and the residual remains of the vortex > properties >>>>>> dissappear? >>>>>> >>>>>> Out in the wildwood behind the Dime Box Saloon lurks an old whisky > still >>>>>> left over from the old days. The tale goes that sippin some that " > thinkin >>>>>> drinkin" stuff could make a person believe the earth was flat. >>>>>> >>>>>> Richard >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > >
