For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't experience
time that means they don't experience distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't experience
time that means they don't experience distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not understand?
On 12/14/25 9:50 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
You did. You crossposted to 5 newsgroups. As a typical mental
case you're in some narcissistic "Do as I say, not as I do"
mode...
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not
understand?
Omg! You're HILARIOUS!
The photon is everywhere is can potentially be! But to the photon
itself that's it -- the one and only frame!
There's no "Time" when it isn't everywhere it can potentially be. It
is at rest, from it's own perspective.
You have a tiny, disordered mind. You're imposing yourself, your own understand of reality onto the photon, instead of doing exactly what I
said you couldn't do!
Lol!
You FAILED on command!
GOOD DOG!
No, Thomas is correct; photons have no rest frame:
On 12/14/25 9:50 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
You did. You crossposted to 5 newsgroups.
As a typical mental case you're in some narcissistic "Do as I say, not as I do"
mode...
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not understand?
Omg! You're HILARIOUS!
The photon is everywhere is can potentially be!
But to the photon itself that's it -- the one and only frame!
On 12/14/25 9:50 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
You did. You crossposted to 5 newsgroups.
As a typical mental case you're in some narcissistic "Do as I say, not as I do"
mode...
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not understand?
Omg! You're HILARIOUS!
The photon is everywhere is can potentially be!
But to the photon itself that's it -- the one and only frame!
On 12/14/25 9:50 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
You did. You crossposted to 5 newsgroups.
As a typical mental case you're in some narcissistic "Do as I say, not as I do"
mode...
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not understand?
Omg! You're HILARIOUS!
The photon is everywhere is can potentially be!
But to the photon itself that's it -- the one and only frame!
On 12/14/25 9:50 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
You did. You crossposted to 5 newsgroups.
As a typical mental case you're in some narcissistic "Do as I say, not as I do"
mode...
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not understand?
Omg! You're HILARIOUS!
The photon is everywhere is can potentially be!
But to the photon itself that's it -- the one and only frame!
[Supersedes to set F'up2 sci.physics.relativity (again)]You posted to five newsgroups! Lol!
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
Thank you. I am not a physicist (yet), but I do
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
[Supersedes to set F'up2 sci.physics.relativity (again)]You posted to five newsgroups! Lol!
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
[more idiocy]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^From: JTEM <[...]@[...]>
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,sci.skeptic,alt.atheism,alt.conspiracy,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Here's an illustration that the collective won't grasp
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Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,sci.skeptic,alt.atheism,alt.conspiracy,sci.physics
Subject: Rest frame of a photon (was: Here's an illustration that the
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Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.paranormal,sci.skeptic,sci.physics,alt.conspiracy
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
Thank you. I am not a physicist (yet), but I do
You're a mentally unhinged troll. You're not anything except sick.
Existing everywhere it can potentially exists, simultaneously, is
an inescapable consequence of not experiencing time.
Now stop being such a loser! You're so pathetic...
[Supersedes to set F'up2 sci.physics.relativity (again)]
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups and 2 top-level hierarchies *without* Followup-To:
On 12/14/25 9:50 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
JTEM amok-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
You did. You crossposted to 5 newsgroups.
Because *you* did before. But I *also* set Followup-To sci.physics.relativity to contain the crosspost, which you probably *deliberately* ignored. That is anti-social behavior on *your* part.
(If the header of your posting is not forged, you are using Mozilla Thunderbird the same as I do. This software observes RFC 5537 "Netnews Architecture and Protocols", § 3.4.3 "Followups", which means that if you push the "Followup" button, the default for the target newsgroups is *only* those found in the "Followup-To" header field of the posting you post a followup to. The Followup-To header field of my posting was "Followup-To: sci.physics.relativity" which you can verify by expanding the header pane
or pressing Ctrl+U.)
As a typical mental case you're in some narcissistic "Do as I say, not as I do"
mode...
No, you simply either have no clue how newsgroups work; or you do, and you are trolling, and you are the mental, narcissistic case here. Which one is it?
Which part of "a photon has no inertial rest frame" did you not understand? >>Omg! You're HILARIOUS!
The photon is everywhere is can potentially be!
*If* it *had* an inertial rest frame which it *cannot* have.
But to the photon itself that's it -- the one and only frame!
Such an *inertial* frame of reference does not exist as the speed of a
photon *cannot* be zero. That would mean that its linear momentum p would
be zero, and by E = p c it would not exist:
The energy--momentum relation for a free particle in Minkowski space is
E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2.
For a particle to move at the speed c in all inertial reference frames, it
is required that its mass is zero. Proof: Let us assume that its mass is
not zero, then
E^2 = m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2
= m^2 c^4 + gamma^2 m^2 v^2 c^2
= gamma^2 m^2 c^4 (1/gamma^2 + v^2/c^2)
= gamma^2 m^2 c^4 (1 - v^2/c^2 + v^2/c^2)
= gamma^2 m^2 c^4
gamma^2 = E^2/(m^2 c^4)
1/(1 - v^2/c^2) = E^2/(m^2 c^4)
1 - v^2/c^2 = m^2 c^4/E^2
v^2/c^2 = 1 - m^2 c^4/E^2 ==> (v = c ==> m = 0).
But then its total energy squared is
E^2 = 0^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2 = p^2 c^2,
so its total energy is (only) given by
E = p c.
Equivalently, by E = p c = h f, its frequency f would be zero which makes no sense (or you could say, with frequency zero there is no oscillation of electric and magnetic fields, so there cannot be photon which is an excitation state of the electromagnetic field):
For a photon, P = hbar K ==> p = |P| = hbar k, so
E = p c = hbar k c = h/(2pi) 2pi/lambda c = h/lambda c = h f.
[Planck--Einstein relation]
Another, more robust, way to show that there is no such frame is to show
that there is no Lorentz transformation to such a frame:
The original Lorentz transformation (as derived by Einstein) for motion of a "primed" frame in the x-direction of an "unprimed" frame at the velocity v relative to the latter frame is
t' = gamma(v) [t - v/c^2 x]
x' = gamma(v) [x - v t]
y' = y
z' = z.
But
gamma(v) = 1/sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2),
where v is the speed of the unprimed frame relative to the primed frame (and vice-versa, and gamma(v) --> inf as v --> c.
Equivalently, the Lorentz transformation above can be performed conveniently by multiplication of a four-vector (c t, x, y, z)^T on the left by the matrix
[ cosh(w) -sinh(w) 0 0]
Lambda := [-sinh(w) cosh(w) 0 0],
[ 0 0 1 0]
[ 0 0 0 1]
where w = artanh(v/c) is defined as rapidity. However, if v = c, then
v/c = 1, and artanh(1) is not well-defined: artanh(x) --> inf as x --> 1.
So we can calculate the elapsed proper time along a lightlike geodesic; it
is zero. In Minkowski space (where this is simple), it is (via the
Minkowski metric and the definition of proper time)
ds^2 = c^2 (d tau^2) = c^2 dt^2 - dx^2 - dy^2 - dz^2
= c^2 dt^2 (1 - v^2/c^2)
(d tau)^2 = dt^2 sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2)
==> (v = c ==> d tau = 0 ==> Delta tau = int_W d tau = 0).
But that does not mean that we can make any scientifically solid statements about what "a photon experiences". In fact, not only does the existence of such an inertial frame contradict special relativity and quantum theories; but also, if special relativity and quantum theories are correct theories (and there is strong indication that they are), we will never be able to *falsify* any statements about this because *according to the theory* material objects *cannot* move at c through space (as their mass is not zero). But hypotheses that cannot be falsified are not scientific.
[The situation is very different if that frame is non-inertial in
the Newtonian sense. Is there such a frame? Absolutely: The relative
speed of a photon propagating radially outwards from the event horizon
of a Schwarzschild black hole is zero. But notice that I said
"propagating": it is still moving, but space is falling in as fast, so
its position does not change (this river model is one way to understand
it). This is just its *coordinate* speed, NOT its local speed. And
the geometry of our universe is NOT the Schwarzschild geometry.]
JTEM wrote:
^^^^
Who?
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
While it is correct to say that zero proper time elapses along lightlike geodesics (ds^2 = +- c^2 (d tau)^2 = 0 ==> (d tau) = 0 ==> Delta tau = 0),
we also know that *a photon has no inertial rest frame* as that would contradict the postulate of the constancy of c, one of two postulates which make up the special principle of relativity which special relativity is
based on, *and* the Planck--Einstein relation E = p c = h f.
Curiously, special relativity fails to describe *completely* a motion at the speed c that it is based on.
JTEM wrote:
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't experience
time that means they don't experience distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
i wanna suck black ass
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
See also:
<https://www.lsu.edu/internet/usenet/usenet-etiquette.html>
This appears to be a bit dated. You should ignore
| * Reply to other people's articles by mail unless there is a specific
| reason to do otherwise.
This is NOT how Usenet works because it *cannot* reasonably work like that.
It should read: "Do NOT reply to other people's articles by (e-)mail, unless >..."
Hiram wrote:
JTEM wrote:
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't
experience time that means they don't experience distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
i wanna suck black ass
hiram, this is a serious physics discussion. you have to bring in the
physics of ass sucking to counter.
No, you
jojo wrote:
Hiram wrote:
JTEM wrote:
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't
experience time that means they don't experience distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
i wanna suck black ass
hiram, this is a serious physics discussion. you have to bring in the
physics of ass sucking to counter.
I've never studied the physics of black ass sucking but it does sound interesting.
Hiram wrote:
jojo wrote:
Hiram wrote:
JTEM wrote:
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't
experience time that means they don't experience
distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
i wanna suck black ass
hiram, this is a serious physics discussion. you have to bring in
the physics of ass sucking to counter.
I've never studied the physics of black ass sucking but it does
sound interesting.
there is a course on that at columbia and nyu. its called power to
the people. it has dynamics, thermodynamics and ai and neurology.
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYou posted to 5 newsgroups.
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYou posted to 5 newsgroups.
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
*PLONK*
On 12/14/25 11:08 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYou posted to 5 newsgroups.
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
And you pretend to be studying physics? Can't even count as
high as five yet pretending to be studying physics?
Photons don't experience time. Thus, they don't experience space.
There is literally nothing separating any point is space from
any other point they can potentially reach.
It's all the exact same place and exact same time, to the photon.
The Internet needs to be gone
On 12/14/25 11:08 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYou posted to 5 newsgroups.
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
And you pretend to be studying physics? Can't even count as
high as five yet pretending to be studying physics?
Photons don't experience time. Thus, they don't experience space.
There is literally nothing separating any point is space from
any other point they can potentially reach.
It's all the exact same place and exact same time, to the photon.
jojo wrote:
Hiram wrote:
jojo wrote:
Hiram wrote:
JTEM wrote:
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't
experience time that means they don't experience
distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
i wanna suck black ass
hiram, this is a serious physics discussion. you have to bring in
the physics of ass sucking to counter.
I've never studied the physics of black ass sucking but it does
sound interesting.
there is a course on that at columbia and nyu. its called power to
the people. it has dynamics, thermodynamics and ai and neurology.
sounds hard
On 12/16/25 7:08 PM, JTEM wrote:
On 12/14/25 11:08 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
You posted to 5 newsgroups.
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
And you pretend to be studying physics? Can't even count as
high as five yet pretending to be studying physics?
Photons don't experience time. Thus, they don't experience space.
There is literally nothing separating any point is space from
any other point they can potentially reach.
It's all the exact same place and exact same time, to the photon.
i've often wondered if this means the future is entirely set in
stone
Dawn Flood wrote:
The Internet needs to be gone
Maybe just a switch to verified users. That'll end the
collective.
Hiram wrote:
jojo wrote:
Hiram wrote:
jojo wrote:
Hiram wrote:
JTEM wrote:
On 12/13/25 5:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
For example, and I've already pointed this out a
number of times so you doubtlessly missed it but,
there's is no "Distance" or "Space" to a photon.
We simply do not know that.
Of course we do. It's inescapable. Once you say they don't experience time that means they don't experience
distance/space.
But you are reacting as predicted.
i wanna suck black ass
hiram, this is a serious physics discussion. you have to
bring in the physics of ass sucking to counter.
I've never studied the physics of black ass sucking but it does
sound interesting.
there is a course on that at columbia and nyu. its called power to
the people. it has dynamics, thermodynamics and ai and neurology.
sounds hard
you will be able to get straight a's.
dart200 wrote:
On 12/16/25 7:08 PM, JTEM wrote:
On 12/14/25 11:08 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYou posted to 5 newsgroups.
JTEM *amok*-crossposted across 5 newsgroups
And you pretend to be studying physics? Can't even count as
high as five yet pretending to be studying physics?
Photons don't experience time. Thus, they don't experience space.
There is literally nothing separating any point is space from
any other point they can potentially reach.
It's all the exact same place and exact same time, to the photon.
i've often wondered if this means the future is entirely set in stone
cant be because then running this simulation would be pointless.
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
See also:
<https://www.lsu.edu/internet/usenet/usenet-etiquette.html>
This appears to be a bit dated. You should ignore
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