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To: Physicist
Ok...here's a question.

If I'm reading this guy right, his entire argument is invalidated because we have objectively measured the velocity of light in air, and other media. Correct?

Next, the best this guy could hope for in his weirdness is a "reverse" save at *right angles* to a photon particle moving in the direction of the path it has just followed...like some sort of wake behind the photon, but not, I guess, in front of it...either the weirdness waves stop at the path, or create a wake indistinguishable from waves originating from the photon as they pass through one another?

Instead he's violated both locality and causality. That big ball of hydrogen fusion we call Sol has all it's light *pulled* from it.

LOL!
15 posted on 06/16/2003 5:23:15 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Maelstrom
If I'm reading this guy right, his entire argument is invalidated because we have objectively measured the velocity of light in air, and other media. Correct?

Well, that I can't tell you, because I didn't read the article. What I meant was that I'd answer any questions about QM.

One thing I can tell you about QM crackpots in general is that they think that all the weirdness comes from the theory, the result of an error in mathematics that can be corrected at a single stroke. In reality, the weirdness is an experimental fact. It can't be "done away with". QM may not be correct, but the correct theory will be weird in exactly the same ways.

16 posted on 06/16/2003 5:40:24 AM PDT by Physicist
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