Eric,
What if you decided to chase after one of the gamma rays? If you constructed a spaceship that traveled at just below the speed of light relative to the source of the ray, it would be effectively Doppler shifted indefinitely. What would you measure at that point? I would suspect like you that the shifted ray would behave exactly as a low frequency signal that is locally generated within your ship. It would be interesting to see the diffraction patterns and other interference patterns under these conditions. I find it interesting to consider the consequences of the spacing of slits for a two slit experiment in such an environment. The slits are along a line that is perpendicular to the direction of motion of the ray. I recall that there is not supposed to be any translation to dimensions at right angles to the relative forward motion. If this is true, there may be experimental problems arising as a result of slit spacing. In the original reference frame there would be a nice interference pattern with the light and dark bars. There would not be a significant pattern detected on the relatively high velocity ship since the spacing between slits would be much less than a wavelength of the transformed gammas. For a real life test, gammas would not be a good choice as a source since it would be nearly impossible to build a two slit experiment of the needed size. Instead, lets use light emitted by an atom in the thought experiment. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 1:25 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Particle size of photon I wrote: to an observer much smaller and more quickly moving than the gamma ray photon, the gamma photon will behave in the manner of the radio wave photon in our frame of reference. By "more quickly moving," I'm thinking not of velocity, but of time slices -- the small little thing gets a lot more done in a given period of time than the gamma photon. Eric
