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A New Physics Theory of Life

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morganbw - 24-2-2015 at 16:32

I want one of those apples as well.

blogfast25 - 24-2-2015 at 16:39

Helium apple:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/270809157111?limghlpsr=true&a...

Guaranteed to defy Newton (not really!)

[Edited on 25-2-2015 by blogfast25]

Zombie - 24-2-2015 at 16:44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMXHvGFGPw

Molecular Manipulations - 26-2-2015 at 19:18

Quote: Originally posted by Molecular Manipulations  

Another off topic question that's been bugging me for a while: how can the event horizon be the same for all wavelengths of light? A smaller wavelength has to travel faster, because it's path is far less direct, it makes sharper turns. Sure, it travels from point A to point B in the same amount of time as any other light, but each photon must travel a greater distance overall relative lower energy photons. I always assumed that was how a high-energy photon manifests it's energy. My only explanation is that since it's going faster, it's weight is proportionally greater relative it's energy according to E=Mc2. Thus a high energy photon goes faster but weighs more, so it's ability to escape a black hole is the same as any other photon. I'm guessing this comes down to the whole "particles behave like waves" and vice-versa.

Of course my question was already answered on Wikipedia:
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Current commonly accepted physical theories imply or assume the photon to be strictly massless, but this should be also checked experimentally. If the photon is not a strictly massless particle, it would not move at the exact speed of light in vacuum, c. Its speed would be lower and depend on its frequency. Relativity would be unaffected by this; the so-called speed of light, c, would then not be the actual speed at which light moves, but a constant of nature which is the maximum speed that any object could theoretically attain in space-time.[20] Thus, it would still be the speed of space-time ripples (gravitational waves and gravitons), but it would not be the speed of photons.

zed - 1-3-2015 at 14:00

Hunh? Blogfast, some of the deaf refer to the hearing as stupid hearing people. The blind could deny that there is such a thing as light. They may never have seen it. You are offended because others perceive the universe in ways that you do not?

aga - 1-3-2015 at 14:08

Viewpoint is incredibly important to one's understanding of things.

Science however is a kind of Standard which makes the group understanding Repeatable, irrespective of viewpoint.

That's likely the reason that blogfast gets annoyed when random personal thoughts get voiced on a Science website.

Zombie - 1-3-2015 at 15:25

Random personal thoughts created science, and this site.
Even a sphere has two sides, just depends on where you look at it from.

aga - 1-3-2015 at 15:35

Scientific method allows for an Objective way to determine to tell which part of the Sphere you're on.

Most important is that Science allows, for the First Time Ever a way for anything we discover to last longer than we individually live, which is the real Biggie.

Basically we die too quick, and spend most of our lives messing about getting drunk, hoping to have sex, having kids (the hope occasionally comes true), trying to get rich etc.
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