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Another Breakthrough at CERN

pullbangdead said:
Ummmm...what?

As best as I can tell, I think you have somehow managed to combine the ideas of antiparticles/antimatter, vacuum fluctuations, quantum entanglement/spooky action at a distance, quantum tunneling, the Copenhagen interpretation/wavefunction collapse, superposition, energy conversion, mass/energy duality (E=mc^2), and a 2000-year old Buddhist text into a single incoherent post.

I'm actually kindof impressed.
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:crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

Well put!
 





Black holes don't attract light, light has no mass. Gravitational lensing is because of general relativity, the large mass bends space, so the photon may appear to travel a bend path, it's actually the path that goes straight through space.
 
space has the ability to creat, not a limited self...



HIMNL9 said:
Beware the photons, they are "undecided" items :p :D

Then also, do you mean antiphotons in particle state, or in wave state ? ..... in wave state, you can "sum" two identical photons with phase rotated by 180 degrees, and this gives you theorically zero (one elide the other, so theorically any photon of a given wavelenght can be the antiphoton of another photon with the same wavelenght, with phase rotated 180 degrees :p) ..... and as particle, how can be said that they have no charge, if they carry energy ? (put your finger in a high power laser beam, if you don't trust that they carry energy ..... J/K :D)

(LOL)


@Laha: do you mean the old "will is power" thing ? ..... it don't work ..... i've tried with all my will to create money, you don't imagine how much i tried ..... but still no money ..... :p :D
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What is this?! I leave you guys for a couple days, just to read a little article and I come back to find a thread half filled with confusing theoretical physics, and the half filled with pseudoscience?

What the heck guys? Where did you leave room for the time machine??
 
Bluefan said:
Black holes don't attract light, light has no mass. Gravitational lensing is because of general relativity, the large mass bends space, so the photon may appear to travel a bend path, it's actually the path that goes straight through space.
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Photons are affected by gravitiy, afaik... hence, photons cannot escape from a singularity...
 
Traveller said:
Photons are affected by gravitiy, afaik... hence, photons cannot escape from a singularity...
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That's actually only somewhat correct.
We perceive them as being affected by gravity. What actually happens is gravity bends space-time - the photon is always travelling in a straight line locally that is, we only perceive it to be a curved path
 
Well, after all the researchers have "cheated" a bit, explaining the mass of photons ..... they said that photons have no "rest" mass, means, zero mass in rest condition ..... but, afaik, for a photon is theorically impossible to exist, in rest state ..... :p :D

("comma 22" ? ..... :p :D)
 
Limecat said:
...gravity bends space-time - the photon is always travelling in a straight line locally that is, we only perceive it to be a curved path
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Ok (I'll buy that) - apologies to Bluefan as he essentially was saying the same thing, but I didn't understand him the first time around.

HIMNL9 said:
...they said that photons have no "rest" mass, means, zero mass in rest condition...
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Interesting!

It's all really exciting stuff; before I graduated with a Computer Science degree, I elected Astrophysics as my major. Unfortunately I decided to let the $ sway my career path... :o Don't get me wrong, IT is an exciting field in itself, but the Universe is the ultimate playground for the mind... :beer:

I'm still playing catch-up with all the new discoveries, trying to cope with the concepts of Dark Matter and Dark Energy (anti-gravity, anyone...?) but it is really awesome stuff! And it's also amazing how Einstein's work is still the basis of all current-day assumptions, despite the vast increase in resources available to scientists today... :bowdown:
 
Don't worry, if one were highly inclined toward theoretical physics, you would probably be a student with low grades, who felt like the pace was too slow. J/K
 
Someone smart please comment on the following statement: there is no such thing as an anti-photon. My reasoning is that anti-matter produces light that is indistinguishable from light produced by regular matter. Here is another way of saying this: if some very far away star made out of anti-matter, we'd never know as it'd look the same as any other star to us.
 
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