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clipka wrote:
> Not really. If light slows down or speeds up as it approaches the earth
> (due to the "aether" exhibiting "local movement"), how could you
> possibly tell the difference?
They'd change apparent angles, methinks. I'm sure there's something clever
that could be figured out. :-)
> Now that's a puzzler to me: Isn't the electron known to have two
> "brothers" (muon and tauon) that differ from it only in mass?
Dunno. Probably.
> in which the propagation speed of
> disturbances must obviously be independent of the particular particle
> that caused them.
Don't ask me. I just know what the formula says. Or knew. IIRC.
I think the charge is based on probabilities of interactions between photons
and electrons. (I.e., the definition of "charge" is "how much the particle
interacts with the photon" or some such.)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Understanding the structure of the universe
via religion is like understanding the
structure of computers via Tron.
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