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On the Lighter Side => New Theories => Topic started by: alan wales - dennis sparkes on 25/08/2024 10:59:23

Title: Do photons acquire point mass when travelling in air?
Post by: alan wales - dennis sparkes on 25/08/2024 10:59:23

It should be noted that when photons are travelling in vacuous space they are mass-less and their velocity is that of light (c). Consequently, we hypothesize that when photons move from vacuous space into transparent substances their velocity falls below c and they acquire point mass.

Title: Re: Do photons acquire point mass when travelling in air?
Post by: alancalverd on 25/08/2024 11:56:21

You are still laboring under the misapprehension that a photon is a particle. It is a particulate model of electromagnetic radiation.

Title: Re: Do photons acquire point mass when travelling in air?
Post by: Origin on 26/08/2024 13:03:32

Quote from: alan wales - dennis sparkes on 25/08/2024 10:59:23

we hypothesize that when photons move from vacuous space into transparent substances their velocity falls below c and they acquire point mass.

That is not a hypothesis, that is a guess and the evidence does not support that particular guess.