Light bounces does it?

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by Digit, Nov 16, 2004.

  1. does it?

    "sure" we say, "of course" we say, "reflection" we say. but does it. has anyone got right down there to the very place where light once travelling one direction at.how fast? the speeeeeeeeed of light!.... and then zoom.... it's off in the other direction at, uhh, guess what speed..... yup.. the speeeeeeeeed of light.

    so, going by your standard grade physics education (primary, and even pre-school education really) , isn't there supposed to be a point where light isn't travelling at lightspeed?


    but it's going lightspeed.


    yeah, but no, you see... its a paradox. and as much as a philosopher might love to dream and dwindle on that... a scientist, a physicist (mathematician) cannot stomach it, especially the engineers, no, we cant have light not be always travelling at light speed, that complicates all our measurements. that removes the absolute against which we wish to measure other things. ha. ok, i doubt many professionals really do feel that way, but it may seem that way from how little progress has been made towards things like light speed travel, and hover cars and all the other things. hmmm, i wonder... could that be the blaim of the elite rulling fatcats who peddle their inferior raw material and disallow us the freedom to grow our own superior raw material? who knows what wonderful things we'd be upto had we not allowed ourselves to be controlled, corralled, coerced and corrupted into and through fear.

    E=mc2

    Einstien himself said it wasnt right (though i doubt ever in so few words), he poked the holes in it long before we all stumbled across it in a poster with him sticking his tongue out.

    But so many of us havn't even caught up with that much. More so than any other theory or philosophy i have ever come across, it is E=mc2 that most opens up our understanding of the universe.

    where words fail, there will be an artist to draw you a picture, a mathematician to show you the equation, and so on, lest we all become like the warrior.

    a great man once said "wars not make one great".

    Does light bounce?

    you bet it does. what it does during that time it is "bouncing" is up for fantastical speculation until one of the scientists makes a camera small enough.
     
  2. Interesting point...
    I'll bring it up in my physics class...
     
  3. Ummmm...
    Who says light slows down when it "bounces"? Remember light is not matter. It has an impulse but it still travels like a wave. And waves don't slow down when they hit an obstacle and get refletd. Unlike matter which is compressed and bounces back due to it's getting back into it's usual shape. In this sense it might be wrong to say light "bounces". It's being reflected.
     

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