XPost: alt.atheism, sci.physics, sci.skeptic   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:14:30 -0600, Dawn Flood   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 12/13/2025 4:23 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Hi Thomas!   
   >   
   >Thank you so very much for your post!!  It's always great to have a   
   >physicist among us!!!   
   >   
   >Dawn   
      
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