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To: who_would_fardels_bear
A photon travels at the speed of light. At that speed all distances shrink to zero. Therefore from the photons point-of-view it can go to any part of the universe in an instant.

Ah, no. As in, completely, 100% wrong.

47 posted on 10/23/2007 3:56:55 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: Yossarian
"Ah, no. As in, completely, 100% wrong."

In what way? Please enlighten me ... with the one photon there is.

50 posted on 10/23/2007 4:00:16 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Yossarian

The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. It is finite and quantifiable. The light emanating from the sun takes approximately 8 1/2 minutes to reach the Earth, which is a distance of 93 million miles, not zero. Otherwise, my beer would be much warmer than I tend to like it.


167 posted on 10/24/2007 8:11:41 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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