[PatrickHenry]

A new theory of light is always an interesting event.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Zionist Conspirator]

Damn!

Now I really want to work for social justice!

[oneofthem]

Very interesting...

[billorites]

[VadeRetro]

Fools! Darkons are the answer.

[Servant of the 9]

Testable, that alone makes it an important speculation.

So9

[Servant of the 9]

Testable, that alone makes it an important speculation.

So9

[LibWhacker]

. . . described light as "a shimmering of ever-present vectors in empty space" . . .

Vectors (and matrices) were ever-present in grad school and I never saw 'em shimmer.

[Redcloak]

LIGO might be able to look for these effects. (Though, the signal may be out of band.) The instruments are made from large, resonant cavities.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I really love/hate when you ping me to articles like this. It's gonna take me a week to try and understand it.

Yeah..yeah...I know...somehow I'll rise above the muddle.

[Calusa]

Realtive Ping.

[Oztrich Boy]

And when Relativity becomes a Law, not just a Theory, everything is going to go dark?

[AntiGuv]

Hmmm.. I think "relativity fluctuations" would work best of all. Yup!

Although some while ago I was very sternly told there could be no such thing..

Will be quite intriguing to see how the experiments turn out.

[Poohbah]

Light may arise from relativity violations

"Intergalactic Physics Patrol. Do you know why I pulled you over, sir? You made a relativity violation going past that wormhole over yonder. Boy, yo's in a heap'o trouble."

[varon]

Hmmm, that kind of puts a bit of daring in an otherwise mundane activity when now I will be sending out my monthly violations of relativity payment instead of the light bill ;-)

[roaddog727]

ooooohhhhhh Kaaaayyyy

So then my lamp which is sitting right next to me is just one continuous string of infinitesimal relativity violations giving rise to my ability to see my keyboard as I type.

Also, when my cellphone rings and lights up indicating that it's ringing, the light emitted is also a relativity violation.

Well.

It's all relative.

[IYAAYAS]

A timely article for me. I'm in the middle of an engineering physics II class and we were discussing the nature of light just a few days ago. I actually laughed out load (LOL) when the professor gave a lecture on the quantum theory of light "generation". I'll answer appropriately on the test but I'm not buying any ridiculous theories about anti-electrons traveling backwards through time and interacting with "regular" electrons traveling forwards through time. God I love college...

[P.O.E.]

Heavy, man!

[Physicist]

My knee-jerk reaction is that I don't buy it. Electromagnetism can be described by a quantum field, but there exist other forces that can also be described by different quantum fields. So what makes the undulation of the electromagnetic field--light, in a word--so "privileged" with respect to the Lorentz symmetry, but not the undulations of those other fields, which otherwise seem to be on an equal philosophical footing? It doesn't sound right.

[carlr]

Is light the absence of darkness?Or is darkness the absence of light?Are either physical or tangible?
Do I have any idea what I`m talking about?That is the only one I can answer.

No,but thought it might sound interesting.