Stop guessing start learning at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:30:43 UTC No. 16455669

>>16455668
Did you think that maybe constants exist for standardization?

Variable measurements aren't good for machines and production at scale..

So things are standardized.

Think about it you wouldn't want a bolt or a phone different measurements from others. It would make them impossible to have interchangeable parts and keep production at scale and globalize manufacturing with different languages and cultures

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:59:07 UTC No. 16455741

>>16455669
Why would a ring doorbell replace a dog? My dog is my best friend. She makes sure to jump in bed and snuggle me before I get up in the morning and we are going to eat breakfast this morning on a patio breakfast pub then going to a dog friendly indoor flea market. Explain how a ring doorbell does all that and kill opossums that invade my yard at night???

Speed of light is the clock speed of the simulation. It just is what it is.

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:52:45 UTC No. 16455804

It is defines to be constant as we measure by light

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:31:30 UTC No. 16455851

It's just a hologram like the rest of so called reality.

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:08:27 UTC No. 16455874

Without getting to deep into the whole scientific schizo shenanigans surrounding light as a concept, the most simple and straight up answer is: We don't know, but it is.
So far we still debate about the light as a physical thingy, is it a particle? A wave? Energy given matter in some kind of not theorized before form of existence? Who knows?!
All we know is that light, or rather, photons move at a constat speed, they can't go faster nor slower, by our understanding of the universe right now, playing with the speed of light might as well have implications of the flow of time, a particle whatever that moves faster than ligh could exist in a way that experiences time "backwards", but this is all more complex and I'm definitely not making any justice, but is the most simplified answer I can give you.

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:28:14 UTC No. 16456031

>>16455874
>We don't know, but it is.
>We
you claim to 'know' because you read in a stupid high school textbook or saw it on the black science man tv show. you've never studied physics and you have no idea what you're talking about.

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:46:29 UTC No. 16456156

>>16455668
Fun fact: The "constant" speed of light has been changed many times in the past century. You never hear about this lol

relativity is such a faggot theory

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:53:22 UTC No. 16456165

>>16455668
>Why is the speed of light a constant?
its not

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:25:04 UTC No. 16456340

>>16455668
It's not, but you don't notice the change because when it changes, so does your frame of reference. Like running a game at 0.85 speed

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:48:03 UTC No. 16456361

>>16455874
>>16455668
Can the speed of sound be made to go faster or slower in air?

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:50:00 UTC No. 16456362

>>16456156
Computers have also changed a lot in the last century, improvement of technology and precision

Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:34:36 UTC No. 16456395

If you shoot a laser pointer in a vacuum and you are looking perpendicular to its direction of travel, would you see it?

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:33:07 UTC No. 16456440

First off, the "speed of light" is the speed of interaction, whether electromagnetic, nuclear or whatever other force. A beam of light travelling through a vacuum is just a very tangible, pure electromagnetic interaction that is easy to visualize. It gets confusing because "light" can be described as a series of EM interaction through a medium. So "light" can actually slow down, unless you specifically say light through a vacuum. "Speed of light" is a shit name for the constant. Call it "c" or "speed of causality".

Second, don't think of "traveling at c" as a special property that certain things have. "Not travelling at c" is the special property. Being able to slow down and speed up and accelerate and experience time and space is known as "mass" and is a result of a complex system containing energy interactions. An atom is a complex system made of electrons and quarks all interaction with each other, which gives it that property, and anything made of atoms will experience time and space. A photon is not a complex system, and it does not interact with matter electromagnetically, or nuclearly, or with the Higgs field like individual electrons and quarks do. It simply carries EM energy from one charged particle to another. It is therefore massless. It won't experience spacetime, and massive things will perceive it traveling at a fixed, steady pace through space and time, in accordance with the theory of relativity.

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:49:12 UTC No. 16456455

>>16455668
It's part of the bigger question of why all the other things are constants that are related to each other.
The anthropic argument is that if they weren't that way then we wouldn't be here to talk about them so just be thankful you live in this part of the multiverse.

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:13:52 UTC No. 16456491

>>16456440
>It simply carries EM energy from one charged particle to another
A tricky thing is the nessecary chain reaction of everything chicken or egg.

Imagine far away from any galaxy in free space in our ideal scientific thought experiment location for the purity of understanding the fundamental objects as they are.

I want to ask: imagine (in vacuum) a single electron surrounded equidistant by a "sphere of electrons",
If the single central electron accelerated a single minimum moment, thus generating EM radii, how would the surrounding electrons react;

But you see an electron doesn't just spontaneously accelerate, and the central one can not be made to accelerate without accessing it thus disturbing the (impossible) set up.

However, I believe, if one truly understands all components as intimately as can be, they would understand how all components would interact even in such impossible circumstances

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:24:37 UTC No. 16456503

>>16456455
Would you agree the fundamental realm is very sophisticated?
Electrons, quarks, gluons, em field, em wave frequencies scale, their balances, elements, their combinations, eigenstates, hilbert spaces, vector spaces, planer waves, scaler waves, stress energy tensors, neutrinos, DNA, the potentials waiting patiently embedded in Earth.

Imagine if intelligent humans, intelligence never arose on Earth. But just cats and mice and birds and bugs and fish and snakes and rabbits and dinosaurs and tigers and amoeba, until the world ended.

If no human like intelligence ever arose on any planet in the universe, wouldn't that be strange, would you consider the fundamental essence and construction of the universe then itself to possess far more sophistication and genius, than any life form in it?

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:29:30 UTC No. 16456509

>>16456455
Look at that cats eyeball, what odd crystalline glossy plasticy lensy bulby dome like perfection, it is very impressive the universe made a single one of those.

If a god only made a single star that lasted for 10,000 years, would that warrent being impressed and giving admiration

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:13:04 UTC No. 16456699

>>16455668
changing anything takes time

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:10:12 UTC No. 16456711

>>16455668
It's the clock speed of the simulation.
If you go any faster, things get all wonky. Like if you uncap the framerate in skyrim.

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:14:20 UTC No. 16457400

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:15:51 UTC No. 16457401

>>16457400

Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:35:20 UTC No. 16457421

>>16455668
> Why is the speed of light a constant?
Maxwell's Equations are enough to show that the speed of light is a constant in all reference frames. But you could then argue why are Maxwell's Equations true? That eventually leads you to QED but the same question again, why is that true. In the end the universe is how it is.

Stop guessing start learning at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 09:59:39 UTC No. 16457960

>>16455741
Dogs are disgusting snivelling creatures and I loathe them, man's best friend? I think not. They should all be rounded up, killed them used to feed orphans. Don't lecture me on dogs

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:08:21 UTC No. 16457969

It's funny that there are complex interactions at a scale that cannot be measured and it's unknown how deep it goes. You will never know what truly happens at the very bottom, there might not even be a bottom.

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:22:02 UTC No. 16457978

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130806111151.htm#google_vignette

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 14:08:38 UTC No. 16458198

>>16455668
I want to slightly alter your question, and ask:

What exactly is wavelength? Is single photon 580nm long, wide, tall? Oscillating in a way that peaks happens 580nm apart as it travels?

Who knows?

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 20:36:12 UTC No. 16458826

>>16458198
I think wavelength is pretty much an aspect of frequency.

Hold a rope in your hand I'll hold the other end, the rope is like 50 ft long.

You shake it 25 times at a steady pace with a steady force.

Someone stands in the center with a stop watch. They see 25 waves pass by.

From the time of the first wave to the time of the last wave passed it took 30 seconds.

They write down the frequentness of the wave was 25 occurances in 30 seconds.
Someone next to them had a ruler and measured the wave lengths. 1 inch each.

Someone above measured the amplitude how high the crest hit, remember you shook your arm with a force, the harder you shake up and down the higher the crest amplitude.


Now next trial you shake it 25 times again, but this time much faster. 25 waves this time take less than 30 seconds to pass the middle stopwatch man.

Do you not see that nessecerily, the distance between the crests will be shorter, the frequentness of waves in 30 seconds is higher (you can fit more).

Amplitude is tricky cause I almost said it takes longer time to raise your arm higher and lower applying more force 25 times than 25 quick short stiff wrist wiggles.

But maybe you are able to move your arm up and down with force very fast, you think about that one for me

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 20:39:27 UTC No. 16458830

>>16455668
General relativity explicitly predicts that light speed is not constant. That only works for inertial reference frames
Gravity=Acceleration=Non inertial

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 23:36:37 UTC No. 16459023

>>16458826
>Amplitude is tricky cause I almost said it takes longer time to raise your arm higher and lower applying more force 25 times than 25 quick short stiff wrist wiggles.
Or regardless, that just goes to show how identical frequencies can have different amplitudes...

But can you make 25 rope waves in 30 seconds at force 5
And 25 rope waves in 30 seconds at force 20?

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 23:43:22 UTC No. 16459032

>>16459023
I presume it would require the 20 force attempt, to simply apply the force faster, to make up for the 5 force amount requiring less up down up down arm distance,
Then I was gonna say is it not the same thing, the speed needed would included the force of your arm motion to make it in time to make it in speed.
But then I consider you can raise your arm high, slowly, but.... there must then be a relation, if you want to make it in time, the 30 second parameter, you are forced to move up and down at a certain speed,

You can raise your arm 10 inches and lower it slowly and gently.

You can raise your arm 10 inches and lower it quickly with force.

It is difficult or impossible (?) To raise your arm and lower it slowly with great force?

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 01:35:49 UTC No. 16459148

>>16455668
Unhinged schizo here.
The speed of light can be altered, in a way, by altering the nature of the medium through which the light travels. You can't go faster than it, but you can make its speed faster than it normally is.
Research the work of Ketterle, Hau, Wang, and Zeldovich if you want to learn more - though I think a lot of work in this area is not available to the public.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 03:01:09 UTC No. 16459235

>>16459032
Thus the relations between speed, energy, force and mass.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 05:17:11 UTC No. 16459314

>>16455668
>it just is okay?

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 05:52:58 UTC No. 16459326

Electrons in our computers can do billions of operations a second, how is that comprhendable. 1 second. Q second. A billion. 1 second. A billion actions.

If it is possible God made our world, it is therefore possible, a billion universe years, occur in 1 of God's seconds.

It then follows, it is possible, God ran his Ai, and discovered certain disatoafactory outcomes of his creation. And possibly sent his secretary agents to contact certain purely seeking individuals in history, in attempt to right the ship toward a preferred path.

A very intriguing prove nothing but spark consideration thought is, imagine how different history would be, every person would be, if God made a world, and made it extremely blatant abundantly clear that he did so. This proves nothing but highlights the limited possibilities:

-No God makes a world.

-God makes a world and from the beggining is visually and vocally present and instructive as a being known by all

-God makes a world very difficult to prove exactly one way or the other if God made the world or not

(Of course we are mature and intellectually trained enough to know that my use of the word 'world' in this context refers to the universe)

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 06:50:23 UTC No. 16459369

>>16455668
>Why is the speed of light a constant?
the most straightforward answer is that it's related to two other numbers which also happen to be constant. The permittivity of free space that allow electric fields to propagate (lowercase eplison w/ a subscript 0) and the permeability of free space to allow magnetic fields to propagate (lowercase mu w/ a subscript 0).
>what accelerates it?
It is known that light is made of photons, which are responsible for the electromagnetic force, and from maxwell's equations its relatively trivial to figure out that electric and magnetic fields cause each other to oscillate. These phenomena are what define photons.
>why the same speed?
See first two answers
>is it possible to slow one down or stop it?
Yes. It has already been done. Some woman researcher in denmark was the first to do it if i remember correctly. Light moves at it's max speed in a vacuum, but in denser mediums it can go slower. Cherenkov radiation is a good example of this.
>is the speed a constituent of the light itself?
No. Speed is the amount of displacement/distance you have covered after an arbitrary amount of time.
>Photons are hard for us to visualize since we are 3D macroscopic creatures trying to peer into a world of tiny things that don't necessarily behave in the way we expect. At best, we have holographic projections of photons, but nobody really knows EXACTLY what they look like.
>why is light sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle?
The short answer is "that's just the way it is." However if that's unsatisfactory for you, consider it this way: everything has a wave associated with it, it's just the bigger you get the more negligible the waves get. Since things like photons and electrons are really tiny, their waves are not negligible and actually interact with their behavior and properties.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 07:21:47 UTC No. 16459389

>>16457960
Did you have a bad experience with a dog??

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:27:51 UTC No. 16459479

>>16458826
Funny is how frequency changes, and wavelength remains constant when light passes trough medium.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:32:41 UTC No. 16459481

>>16457960

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:35:16 UTC No. 16459551

>>16459481
ai shitters are truly a menace

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:40:35 UTC No. 16459615

>>16459479
>Funny is how frequency changes, and wavelength remains constant when light passes trough medium
That's not that mysterious I don't think.

Imagine a pinball machine, or I geuss just a plinko like set up:

Imagine a line of 20 metal balls free falling: call the distance between them wave length: call the amount 20 and the time it takes them to pass a marker frequency:

They then enter a chamber full of metal horizontal metal rods and free space gaps.

There is a marker half way down: actually I don't really know how this would change things, the balls would take a longer time to pass the marker than before, if 20 took 40 time units before, now the 20 clinking and clanking metal rods take 40 time units to pass the marker:
But about the changes in distance between each I'm not sure.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:43:18 UTC No. 16459617

>>16459615
>>16459479
Oh yeah ok it seems that does make sense I forgot which you said changes,
The clink clanking metal balls hit the rods and fall equally, so their net speed is slowed, but the distance between them more or less stays the same

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:49:52 UTC No. 16459624

>>16459479
>>16459615
>>16459617
So what it is saying is imagine the hands holding rope waving example,

Frequency 20, wave lengths of 5.

But now being done on some other planet with different gravity and atmosphere that is weird and makes the rope act different, so that the waves you make in the rope are the same distance from one another: but the environment physical restraints and constraints effect the substance of the rope as a whole, so that the ropes fibers propagate these flowing rope waves at a slower pace

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:04:13 UTC No. 16459638

>>16459615
>rods take 40 time units
*take more than 40 t u

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:16:22 UTC No. 16459645

>>16459624
>so that the ropes fibers propagate these flowing rope waves at a slower pace
It is not thought the EM fibers themselves are altered, so it is more like metal ball example, it is just em equally bouncing off walls slowing down the enter at point A to exit at point Z net time.

Imagine a straight highway, a large tunnel, then straight highway. The large tunnel contains a road that winds back and forth over and over you can't see from outside, but the body building of the tunnel is 1 mile long :

You clock a cars speed pre tunnel, 100 mph.

You see the car exit the 1 mile tunnel, you clock it at 100 mph.

For 2 miles before the tunnel, the car is clocked at 100 mph, and the distance it covers at that speed is noted.

You can't see in the tunnel.

The car is locked on a setting that only drives 100 mph. It took x mins for 100mph car to drive 1st mile, x mins for 100 mph Car to drive 2nd mile, x mins for 100 mph Car to drive 1 mile after the tunnel:
But how come it took the 100 mph car >x mins to travel through the 1 mile tunnel?

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:22:53 UTC No. 16459650

>>16459645
Now consider this with a chain of 10; 100 mph locked cars,

All the cars slow down in the tunnel, but the drivers remain quite the same distance from one another the entire 4 mile drive

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:24:17 UTC No. 16459656

>>16459650
>All the cars slow down in the tunnel,
They don't slow down, but take longer time to pass thru

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 15:52:10 UTC No. 16459726

>>16455668
>>16455874
you can slow down light retards

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:06:44 UTC No. 16459740

>>16459726
light slows down by 50% just by traveling through water. I just read an article that just pops up randomly on my phone that we managed to slow light down to just 15mph through a super cooled environment.

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 01:44:47 UTC No. 16460388

>>16459740
>light slows down by 50% just by traveling through water
What if we're already in the water in some galactic sense?

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 02:54:49 UTC No. 16460460

>>16459726
>>16459740
>>16460388
You know those children toy wind up cars, or ones where you drag it backwards and then let it go.

What you are saying is that once wound, you can slow down the speed of that cars churning mechanism by lifting it off the ground, or placing it on carpet instead of hardwood

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 02:56:08 UTC No. 16460461

>>16460460
Oops I geuss hitting carpet would slow down the mechanisms processing, but okay the first one, lifting it off the ground

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 09:39:36 UTC No. 16460709

>>16457978
>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130806111151.htm
>Bringing light to a halt: Physicists freeze motion of light for a minute

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:47:19 UTC No. 16461018

>>16460709
>Physicists freeze motion of light for a minute
Conceptually how? Is a magnetic field not frozen light?

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 01:57:07 UTC No. 16461650

>>16461018
I don't know, something about trapping it in a special crystal and slowing it down with another laser light.

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 17:56:41 UTC No. 16462423

https://youtu.be/Z9O5xY3Z1WE

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 18:35:47 UTC No. 16462477

>>16455668
>speed is constat
>what accelerates it?
nothing, that's why it is constant.

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:37:32 UTC No. 16462560

>>16462477
>>speed is constat
>>what accelerates it?
>nothing, that's why it is constant.
Where is light before it is emitted?
And there is no acceleration time?

(electron)
No light emitted
No light emitted
No light emitted
No light emitted
No light emitted
(electron)~~~~~(light """instantly""" moving light speed emitted)

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:43:15 UTC No. 16462569

>>16462560
It's outside of nucleus range, there's a slippery wet slope on which it slides forward forever without much resistance.

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:44:33 UTC No. 16462571

>>16462560
Actually, if you think of it, electron moving to ground state, have reaction to action, and that's photon emitted.

Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 21:23:24 UTC No. 16462696

>>16462560
somehow the universe decides it's time for two matter particles to exchange energy. maybe those particles are right next to each other or maybe they are a billion light years apart.
the weird thing is that the universe appears to anticipate the movement of all objects before the exchange happens. but that's possible when the exchange is timeless and so happens "instantaneously" forward and backward across space. e.g. an electron in a star loses energy and an electron in a telescope gains energy at the same time--we just pick a frame of reference as an easier way to interpret that.
if there was an acceleration then energy would be exchanged very erratically and we wouldn't have the consistent universe we have with nice clean properties of physics, chemistry, etc.

Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 10:45:42 UTC No. 16463379

>>16462560
>And there is no acceleration time?
Technically in QM the wavefunction that represents a photon existing can start at zero and then grow in amplitude, this growth takes some time, the acceleration rate is given by Schrodingers equation.
Its not acceleration of the speed, but growth in the existence chance of the photon

Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:37:17 UTC No. 16464848

>>16462569
>It's outside of nucleus range, there's a slippery wet slope on which it slides forward forever without much resistance.
The most micro construction of the em fields substance and physicality is not fully understood is it? When I say, how much em field is in the nucleus? How much em field is in between the nucleus of electron? When em field in the format of photon bumps an electron energy state up, this means locally in that particular nucleus electron system there is now x amount more em field trapped between the electron and nucleus, which is released when the electron slides back down.

If photons always move light speed, does the em field always move light speed?

Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:40:01 UTC No. 16464850

>>16462696
Light speed is not instant, light from distant star does not arrive instantly, it's called light years for a reason

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 01:29:59 UTC No. 16465572

What about the speed of darkness though?

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 05:51:17 UTC No. 16465764

Is the EM field anything other than all currently existing photons?

If you pressed pause on the universe, you would point to all photons, would you say that and that alone is the EM field? Or would you have to point to something else?

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 01:16:41 UTC No. 16467818

When you bring S pole of bar magnet towards S pole of bar magnet and you feel a resistance:

Are you feeling photons being shot out of the magnet ends at each other?

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 01:52:31 UTC No. 16467856

>>16455668
>Why is the speed of light a constant?
Because the universe is a simulation, and the speed of causality is limited by the read/write speed of the hardware running the simulation.
Shouldn't this be obvious, what other reason would there be for the universe having a speed limit on the propagation of information? It's literally a hardware issue.

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 04:42:39 UTC No. 16467976

>>16455668
Because we don't know how gravity works. After all, it doesn't quite make sense that space time is accelerating faster than the speed of light, if light has no mass and spacetime itself is also massless.

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 04:44:45 UTC No. 16467978

>>16467856
So what you're saying is that the universe is a console and some faggot with a PC is cucking us from our true potential.

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 16:54:55 UTC No. 16468401

>>16455668
this always makes me think about the eternal garbo papers and press releases about "negative speed of light"
most recent one being this crap https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03680
they think it's a new phenomenon, make a sensationalist headline and send to press before it's even published
we knew about this in the 70s lmao
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.738
https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.1.305

>then what's up with that negative speed of light
wrong interpretation of the wrong velocity
>but still doesn't explain negative time
a "gaussian" pulse extends its wings to infinity. same trickery as saying a phase advance is seeing the future, but you're using a sine wave which extends to infinity

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 17:32:16 UTC No. 16468424

>>16459369
>but in denser mediums it can go slower.
Isn't that misleading?, my understanding is that light went slower in denser mediums because the "travelling" of light is it being absorbed and re-emitted by the atoms of the material, this absorption and re-emission is was slowed down the travelling process

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 22:21:44 UTC No. 16468807

>>16468424
>the "travelling" of light is it being absorbed and re-emitted by the atoms of the material
completely false, there is no need for absorption and certainly not emission for light refraction
what actually happens is electrons excited by the field oscillate and become dipoles, creating another wave that when summed with the incoming one induce that slowing down effect

this does take a non-zero amount of time, making shit like this possible, where you see the original field and then it starts interfering with the scattered field
https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.053816

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Nov 2024 22:35:03 UTC No. 16468818

>>16455741
The only economic purpose of dog is as security guard. Dog as friend is luxury and luxury is retarded waste of productivity retard.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:03:01 UTC No. 16470704

What physicality/s forces light to always travel ~300,000,000 meters per second and not a meter faster or slower?

What were the odds humans would settle on using the length of the meter, which fits into such a clean number with light. It surely is coincidence, but maybe the meter should have been slightly (to early to think) smaller or larger to make that pure 300,000,000

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:06:32 UTC No. 16470709

>>16455668
>Is it possible in theory to have a photon that we slow down or stop?
Bring S pole to S pole feel repulsion, what is it being felt, photons?

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:12:28 UTC No. 16470714

>>16455668
Somehow, some way, with some physical meaning, e makes b makes e makes b makes e makes b makes e makes b makes b makes e makes b.

A water wave is on the surface.
Underwater, water waves aren't that strong (though then we consider whale and dolphin noises, this implies underwater medium can be quite the distributor of sound radiation).

We don't access the surface of space, we are in the water of space, and light is like an underwater wave but different, as space is like water, but different, space is like air but different, space is like earth but different, space is like fire, but different. Particles, substance, connectivity, and pulsation of energy waves in it, of it, through it, as it.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:23:31 UTC No. 16470774

>>16459726
No.. You can't. You can change thr group velocity but the phase velocity is constant.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:01:50 UTC No. 16470881

>>16464850
Light is instant from a POV of a light

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:03:04 UTC No. 16470884

>>16465764
You can't put pause on the universe kiddo.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:05:09 UTC No. 16470887

>>16470704
Light speed is pure 300k m/s but our measurements are inaccurate so we approximate

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:30:56 UTC No. 16470939

>>16455668
### Why is the speed of light a constant?
The speed of light in a vacuum, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second, is a fundamental constant of nature. This constancy is rooted in the principles of special relativity, formulated by Albert Einstein. According to these principles, the speed of light is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or the motion of the light source. This invariance is crucial for the consistency of the laws of physics across different reference frames.

### What accelerates light and why always to the same speed?
Photons, the particles of light, are massless. Because they have no mass, they don't need to be "accelerated" in the traditional sense. They are always created traveling at the speed of light. This speed is a fundamental property of the universe, determined by the electromagnetic properties of the vacuum.

### Can a photon be slowed down or stopped?
In a vacuum, photons always travel at the speed of light. However, when light passes through a medium (like water or glass), it interacts with the atoms in the medium, which can slow it down. This slowing is not because the photons themselves are moving slower, but because they are being absorbed and re-emitted by the atoms in the medium, effectively taking a longer path. In certain experimental conditions, such as using ultra-cold gases or specially designed materials, light can be slowed down significantly. However, photons cannot be stopped or slowed down in a vacuum.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:31:58 UTC No. 16470941

### Is the speed a constituent part of a light particle?
Yes, the speed of light is intrinsic to photons. If a photon were to travel at any speed other than the speed of light, it would no longer be a photon. This is because photons are defined as massless particles that always travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.

### Structure and composition of a photon
Photons are elementary particles, meaning they are not composed of smaller particles. They are quanta of the electromagnetic field and exhibit properties of both waves and particles, a concept known as wave-particle duality. Photons have no mass, no electric charge, and always move at the speed of light. They are characterized by their energy, which is proportional to their frequency, and their momentum.

### Wave-particle duality of light
Light exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties depending on the experimental setup. This duality is a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics. For example, light can form interference patterns (a wave property) and also be detected as discrete packets of energy called photons (a particle property). This duality was first proposed by Albert Einstein to explain the photoelectric effect and has been confirmed by numerous experiments.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:28:18 UTC No. 16471210

>>16470887
>Light speed is pure 300k m/s but our measurements are inaccurate so we approximate
What is the objective significance of the second? Are all time and space units equally arbitrary, it just happened to be the meter as important, the yard, the foot, the inch, the mm, the second, millisecond.

It must be so, for you could use any other space length/time length, to describe lights travel, and they would all likely be messy numbers.

Because length and time are a continua (to great degrees), instead of deciding on the inch = inch and cm = cm it could have been the Elphe is 5 hairs shorter than an inch and the Pemdu is 2 thinness of fingernails shorter than the cm, and that's the standard unit measuring system

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:34:33 UTC No. 16471282

>>16459389
It rejected my advances.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:09:03 UTC No. 16471308

>>16464850
sure, in a newtonian framework what you said makes sense. but "time" isn't actually a universal constant. it's a consequence of the transfer of energy (i.e. information) and the observed evolution of that process. there's no place you can stand to see photons traveling between particles because that's not what they're doing. they're transferring energy across spacetime where the time component doesn't advance. so it only takes years in our minds when we see ourselves stepping outside of physics in order to talk about non-physical concepts, like the history of the universe.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:18:22 UTC No. 16471315

>>16459389
No, I'm a sociopath.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 23:22:38 UTC No. 16471385

C is the causal update rate of the universe.

Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:23:48 UTC No. 16471538

>>16455668
The speed of light isn't actually constant, the constant c signifies the speed limit of light and causality in general. Light can be slowed down depending on the medium it moves through