Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: What is a photon Date: 14 Jun 2025 09:26:41 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 11 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <9af3e95b721801ec23446e0d70f081b3@www.novabbs.org> <%5W_P.1199819$lZjd.237071@fx05.ams4> <101hdi1$2104j$1@dont-email.me> <3fe4ff53feee25131897dec6bed26616@www.novabbs.com> <101mlhj$3v6bs$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de McPhpfPkfmA7yZ6TP+u3xwAo/BXplIcHi4SuJN7RsmP6Ta Cancel-Lock: sha1:9O++y2Xqk4UuB3XmTJPnxni3lns= sha256:QDxyF+Gf2UD2HacE8AOokYwp/SMDma80eJdvbIm/o4U= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US "Paul.B.Andersen" wrote or quoted: >The result is that it is thoroughly confirmed that >the speed of light is invariant. Since its beginnings, science has been an assault on common sense. The Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos first argued in the third century B.C. that the earth moves around the sun rather than what we all seem to see - the sun moving around the earth. (Bruce Gregory in 1999)