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From: rick_s on 29 May 2010 16:34
> I think using lasers and fringing you can see that light is not a
> constant speed. So then the aether is in some way affecting the speed of
> light, just like glass or water does.
>

I need to clarify this. What I mean to say is in water and glass light
does not travel at c.

And light that comes from distant galaxies is red shifted if they are
moving away and this is just another way of saying light is moving
apparently slower.

Now 'apparently' is the operative word. Since the light is travelling at
c, but it appears to be stretched out because we are moving away.

So then the million dollar question is why c?

That's the maximum speed.

Why is that the maximum speed?

Well its not is it if Cherenkov radiation can travel faster than c, then
any wave can travel faster than c, if it has no intrinsic mass.

So then hypothetically for all intents and purposes, you could have
instantaneous communication across incredible distances depending on how
much power you could pump into the system.

It would appear as instantaneous on the macro scale but all it has to do
is exceed the speed of light sufficiently.

Every second it gains, reduces the distance between them.
Length contraction and time dilation.
From: rick_s on 29 May 2010 16:55

> A moving particle does not leave an empty void in its wake. The
> frictionless superfluid fills in where the particle had been. This
> filling in of the space where the particle had been by the
> frictionless superfluid is evidence of the pressure the displaced
> frictionless superfluid applies towards the particle.

So what happens then when a blue shifted galaxy, one that heading
towards us, if it were to accelerate. It would appear blue shifted, then
ultraviolet, then x-rays, then gamma rays.
Not only would it be heading towards us, but in front of it deadly
radiation which was just candlelight even at its source.

You head towards candle light in space at an accelerated rate and as you
chase along that light ray the intensity increases and it turns to
radiation. A light on a bullet would appear blue shifted.
From: rick_s on 29 May 2010 17:08
On 5/29/2010 21:55, rick_s wrote:
>
>> A moving particle does not leave an empty void in its wake. The
>> frictionless superfluid fills in where the particle had been. This
>> filling in of the space where the particle had been by the
>> frictionless superfluid is evidence of the pressure the displaced
>> frictionless superfluid applies towards the particle.
>
> So what happens then when a blue shifted galaxy, one that heading
> towards us, if it were to accelerate. It would appear blue shifted, then
> ultraviolet, then x-rays, then gamma rays.
> Not only would it be heading towards us, but in front of it deadly
> radiation which was just candlelight even at its source.
>
> You head towards candle light in space at an accelerated rate and as you
> chase along that light ray the intensity increases and it turns to
> radiation. A light on a bullet would appear blue shifted.

I think the expansion of the universe has to be taken into account here.

If a light wave goes faster than c, it will overlap waves even from the
same source that were traveling at c.
The universe would be filled with waves filled with light.

But since the universe is expanding, waves shrink towards the past.
From: Sam Wormley on 30 May 2010 01:11
On 5/29/10 3:55 PM, rick_s wrote:
> So what happens then when a blue shifted galaxy, one that heading
> towards us, if it were to accelerate. It would appear blue shifted, then
> ultraviolet, then x-rays, then gamma rays.
> Not only would it be heading towards us, but in front of it deadly
> radiation which was just candlelight even at its source.

The effect is observer dependent. That fact seems lost on you.

From: Sam Wormley on 30 May 2010 01:14
On 5/29/10 4:08 PM, rick_s wrote:
> If a light wave goes faster than c

Light (photons) DO NOT propagate at any speed other than c.

From the quantum mechanical perspective,

1. photons are emitted (by charged particles)
2. photons propagate at c
3. photons are absorbed (by charged particles)

Photon momentum
p = hν/c = h/λ

Photon Energy
E = hν
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