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From: "Paul.B.Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no>
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Subject: Re: Relativity and the nature of light. Waves or particles?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:17:06 +0200
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Den 22.10.2024 23:08, skrev Richard Hachel:
> 
> Light propagates in "nothing at all", or rather, does not propagate.
> 
> Sound has a medium: air.
> 
> Light has no medium, and it was a mistake to look for something that 
> could support its propagation.
> 
> Light is an instantaneous transaction of energy between two atoms, so we 
> cannot really talk about "propagation" which requires a speed, that is 
> to say a ratio of distance over time.
> 
> The question is what gives light an aspect of propagation when there is 
> no propagation? What gives it a wave-like appearance, when there is no 
> wave? What gives it the appearance of a particle when there is no particle.
> 
> If you think about it, what the photon seems to be surfing on is not an 
> ether, it is not something metric, it is not something compact.
> 
> It is simply universal enisochrony.
> 
> In short, the photon does not exist, but seems to exist, and if we had 
> to propose something on which it surfs, it would be spatial anisochornia.
> 
> In short, it surfs on time.
> 
> By crossing space, it crosses time for the observer who studies it, and 
> thus gives an impression of speed, of surfing on "this time".
> 
> But this is only an illusion. Between the two atoms, between here and 
> there, there is nothing at all; not the slightest existence.
> 
> When the quantum leaves the atom, it is already instantly at the level 
> of an atom of the receiver.
> 
> Niet, ether.
> 
> R.H.
> 
> 

'nuff said! :-D

-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/