• Re: Pound-Rebka 1960 paper: "APPARENT WEIGHT OF PHOTONS"

    From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Foos Research on Sat Sep 2 11:31:29 2023
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:54:44 AM UTC-8, Foos Research wrote:
    On Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 1:50:01 AM UTC+7, Johni Luzzatto wrote:
    Richard Hertz wrote:

    I reproduce here my reply to prokariotic, because I think it deserves to have a dedicated thread. It's related to the title of the P&R 1960 paper,
    Why bother with photons? You're right, there is no mass and no photons, only hv. Einstein wasn't an imbecile, he was a clever fake. As for the difference in g between two heights, Einstein's phony relativity formula that claims to have adjusted for it
    cannot be just an error, but only one of many fakeries. Do you NOT recognize the simple act of integrating g over the distance in question to obtain an averaged value of g? I see nobody who pretends to understand Einstein and is yet so adept at juggling
    complex formulas is able to recognize this and other fake formulas or the simple math problem required to find the right answer. Sheez, boys, did you forget freshman calculus? Did you ever solve for Einstein's formula? It falls outside the range of g for
    fractional frequencies for upper and lower levels over distance h, not that any idiot can't see it won't work. But you're wrong about time dilation. I hate such misleading terms. Right, you don't need the Pound-Rebka experiment or atomic clocks or fancy
    theories to figure that out. Just ponder the definition of a meter until the light dawns. But why do I bother?
    Foos doesn't accept time dilation. He does everything with length contraction, another reification fallacy.

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Richard Hertz on Sat Sep 2 11:29:15 2023
    On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 5:37:03 PM UTC-8, Richard Hertz wrote:
    I reproduce here my reply to prokariotic, because I think it deserves to have
    a dedicated thread. It's related to the title of the P&R 1960 paper, and contain
    a "derivation" of the gravitational frequency shift that is believed to be real.

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    On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 6:19:17 PM UTC-3, prokaryotic.c...@gmail.com wrote:

    <snip>

    Let me just get something clear. As I have written elsewhere, "...the theoretical arguments predicting gravitational time dilation do not
    depend on the details of general relativity at all. Any theory of gravity will predict gravitational time dilation if it respects the principle of equivalence. This includes Newtonian gravitation." Are we agreed
    on that? You do not dispute that gravitational time dilation is a real phenomenon. You just claim that Pound and Rebka never actually
    measured it, correct?

    I don't believe that gravitational time dilation is REAL. I did post, weeks ago and in a trolling way, how could Einstein
    have had such heuristic insight between 1907 and 1911. I can't find the thread now, as I'm kind of lazy, but let me to
    state the WRONG basis of such heuristic/hallucinogenic proposal.

    1) KEY BELIEF: Rest energy E₀ = m₀c² is REAL (I don't agree with this STUPID ASSERTION, which has no physical meaning).

    2) If m₀ is put on inertial motion at v speed, then m₀ gains kinetic energy KE = 1/2 m₀v² (FORGET relativity for a while), and
    the TOTAL ENERGY of m₀ is now E = E₀ (1 + 1/2 v²/c²).

    3) THEREFORE, if I slowly rise m₀ to a tiny height d (so the gravitational acceleration g is almost CONSTANT), the WORK
    performed with such action IS NOT LOST, but stored in m₀ as POTENTIAL ENERGY U = m₀gd. Hence, m₀ has now a
    TOTAL ENERGY E = E₀ (1 + gd/c²).

    4) NOW THE TRICKY INSIGHT (remember the IRONIC title of the P&R paper: "APPARENT WEIGHT OF PHOTONS"):

    IF I have a photon with mass m₀ = hf₀/c² (Planck), and I do with it what's described in 3), THEN THE TOTAL ENERGY OF THE PHOTON IS:

    E = E₀ + ∆E = hf₀ (1 + gd/c²) = hf₁

    THEN, IT HAPPENED THAT THE PHOTON HAS A NEW FREQUENCY f₁, AND

    f₁ = f₀ (1 + gd/c²)

    HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? NO RELATIVITY AND THE SAME EINSTEIN'S 1911 FORMULA? IT CAN'T BE RIGHT, CAN BE?

    BECAUSE IT'S A FAILED HEURISTIC PROPOSITION. A FAIRY TALE. SOMETHING THAT EINSTEIN THOUGHT THAT WAS A BREAKTHROUGH.

    But it's WRONG, through and through. BECAUSE PHOTONS DON'T HAVE MASS!!

    Then, saving the relativity GOBBLEDYGOOK, and trying to derive it from TWO KNOWN AND VALID THEORIES (Newton and Planck) PLUS
    using a 1:1 relationship mass-energy (Hassenhorl was close to it by 1905, as Poincaré by 1900, and MANY OTHERS), you can derive
    such STUPID FALLACY about GRAVITY affecting TIME.

    BUT such assertion IS FALSE, because ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY HAS NO MASS INVOLVED. Einstein thought that it had, but it was
    a FAULTY, WRONG proposition.

    Yet, here we are 112 years after that 1911 paper, arguing IF EINSTEIN WAS THE MESSIAH OR JUST AN IMBECILE.

    A messiah for you.

    An imbecile for me.

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    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all. I suspect that to be the case. Is it possible for energy to exist without mass?

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Tom Roberts on Sat Sep 2 11:32:17 2023
    On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 9:13:27 AM UTC-8, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 2/22/23 3:54 AM, Foos Research wrote:
    [... complete nonsense]

    Why bother to make stuff up and pretend it is true? What's the point?

    Tom Roberts
    That's all relativity does.

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  • From Tom Roberts@21:1/5 to Laurence Clark Crossen on Sat Sep 2 15:13:43 2023
    On 9/2/23 1:29 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all.

    You really should learn some basic physics before attempting to write
    about it. Your unsupported opinions are worthless. Why bother to make
    stuff up and pretend it is true? What's the point?

    Tom Roberts

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Tom Roberts on Sat Sep 2 20:40:56 2023
    On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 1:13:49 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 9/2/23 1:29 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all.
    You really should learn some basic physics before attempting to write
    about it. Your unsupported opinions are worthless. Why bother to make
    stuff up and pretend it is true? What's the point?

    Tom Roberts
    Relativity is nothing but making things up ad hoc, pure fiction.

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to Tom Roberts on Sat Sep 2 22:23:49 2023
    On Saturday, 2 September 2023 at 22:13:49 UTC+2, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 9/2/23 1:29 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all.
    You really should learn



    that we're FORCED!!! To THE BEST WAY!!!

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Tom Roberts on Sun Sep 3 13:56:57 2023
    On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 1:13:49 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 9/2/23 1:29 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all.
    You really should learn some basic physics before attempting to write
    about it. Your unsupported opinions are worthless. Why bother to make
    stuff up and pretend it is true? What's the point?

    Tom Roberts
    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity? Of course, you couldn't say. Perhaps you think the mass-velocity relation multiplies zero mass?

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  • From Volney@21:1/5 to Laurence Clark Crossen on Sun Sep 3 17:05:24 2023
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?

    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Volney on Sun Sep 3 14:10:29 2023
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.
    Not if it's massless.

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  • From Paul Alsing@21:1/5 to Laurence Clark Crossen on Sun Sep 3 14:48:56 2023
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:10:32 PM UTC-7, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?

    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

    Not if it's massless.

    https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-does-gravity-affect-photons-that-is-bend-light-if-photons-have-no-mass/

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  • From Volney@21:1/5 to Laurence Clark Crossen on Sun Sep 3 17:50:18 2023
    On 9/3/2023 5:10 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

    Not if it's massless.

    Oh yes it does. Remember the 1919 eclipse observation? The question is
    whether Newton's deflection amount was correct or Einstein's deflection
    amount (which was double Newton's prediction) was correct. As we all
    know, Einstein's prediction was correct.

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Volney on Sun Sep 3 14:52:46 2023
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:50:22 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 5:10 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

    Not if it's massless.
    Oh yes it does. Remember the 1919 eclipse observation? The question is whether Newton's deflection amount was correct or Einstein's deflection amount (which was double Newton's prediction) was correct. As we all
    know, Einstein's prediction was correct.
    refraction.

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  • From Richard Hachel@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 3 21:56:58 2023
    Le 03/09/2023 à 23:50, Volney a écrit :
    On 9/3/2023 5:10 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

    Not if it's massless.

    Oh yes it does. Remember the 1919 eclipse observation? The question is whether Newton's deflection amount was correct or Einstein's deflection amount (which was double Newton's prediction) was correct. As we all
    know, Einstein's prediction was correct.

    No.

    Einstein had predicted a deflection half the size.
    When the scientists realized this, they asked that the results not be published, and asked that the weather be too cloudy as an excuse to carry
    out the measurements.
    We therefore waited for the next eclipse, and there, the work was
    confirmed.
    But with this terrible reality: it was after the fact.
    Einstein had revised his copy with the results that he “had to” find.
    In short, we had mended things in the meantime.

    R.H.

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Richard Hachel on Sun Sep 3 15:11:43 2023
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:57:02 PM UTC-7, Richard Hachel wrote:
    Le 03/09/2023 à 23:50, Volney a écrit :
    On 9/3/2023 5:10 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

    Not if it's massless.

    Oh yes it does. Remember the 1919 eclipse observation? The question is whether Newton's deflection amount was correct or Einstein's deflection amount (which was double Newton's prediction) was correct. As we all
    know, Einstein's prediction was correct.
    No.

    Einstein had predicted a deflection half the size.
    When the scientists realized this, they asked that the results not be published, and asked that the weather be too cloudy as an excuse to carry out the measurements.
    We therefore waited for the next eclipse, and there, the work was
    confirmed.
    But with this terrible reality: it was after the fact.
    Einstein had revised his copy with the results that he “had to” find.
    In short, we had mended things in the meantime.

    R.H.
    If the results are not Newtonian they must be due to refraction making the photon massless. Curved space doesn't explain anything.

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  • From Tom Roberts@21:1/5 to Laurence Clark Crossen on Sun Sep 3 17:39:13 2023
    On 9/3/23 3:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 1:13:49 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 9/2/23 1:29 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all.
    You really should learn some basic physics before attempting to write
    about it. Your unsupported opinions are worthless. Why bother to make
    stuff up and pretend it is true? What's the point?

    Tom Roberts
    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?

    Because gravity affects all forms of energy and momentum, not just mass.

    Tom Roberts

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to Volney on Sun Sep 3 22:59:24 2023
    On Sunday, 3 September 2023 at 23:50:22 UTC+2, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 5:10 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 2:05:27 PM UTC-7, Volney wrote:
    On 9/3/2023 4:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:

    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Don't forget Newtonian gravity also predicts light is curved by gravity.

    Not if it's massless.
    Oh yes it does. Remember the 1919 eclipse observation? The question is whether Newton's deflection amount was correct or Einstein's deflection

    Sorry, stupid Mike, according to your idiot guru light [in
    vacuum] is always travelling straight/geodesic paths.

    As for "Newton deflection" - Newton's optics was not
    successful and has been abandoned something about
    300 years ago. It's a part of lies of The Shit that refuting
    it again is an argument against Newton's dynamics
    and Newton's gravity.

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  • From Richard Hertz@21:1/5 to Brant Hegai on Mon Sep 4 14:11:53 2023
    On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 5:50:39 PM UTC-3, Brant Hegai wrote:

    <snip>

    it isn't, affected. Fucking stupid. It's the space/spacetime the photon flies through. If curved, then it has no choice. Fucking stupid.

    You, Brant, are the fucking ignorant stupid.

    Following geodesics imply that photons move faster than c.

    Now, retarded, do the transformations from curved space to euclidean space.

    Of course that you don't know how to do it, fucking cretin relativist.

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  • From Richard Hertz@21:1/5 to Brant Hegai on Mon Sep 4 14:12:06 2023
    On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 5:50:39 PM UTC-3, Brant Hegai wrote:

    <snip>

    it isn't, affected. Fucking stupid. It's the space/spacetime the photon flies through. If curved, then it has no choice. Fucking stupid.

    You, Brant, are the fucking ignorant stupid.

    Following geodesics imply that photons move faster than c.

    Now, retarded, do the transformations from curved space to euclidean space.

    Of course that you don't know how to do it, fucking cretin relativist.

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  • From Laurence Clark Crossen@21:1/5 to Tom Roberts on Tue Sep 5 12:59:24 2023
    On Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 3:39:21 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 9/3/23 3:56 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 1:13:49 PM UTC-7, Tom Roberts wrote:
    On 9/2/23 1:29 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
    A massless photon obviously would not be affected by gravity at all.
    You really should learn some basic physics before attempting to write
    about it. Your unsupported opinions are worthless. Why bother to make
    stuff up and pretend it is true? What's the point?

    Tom Roberts
    Why would a massless photon become affected by gravity?
    Because gravity affects all forms of energy and momentum, not just mass.

    Tom Roberts
    Thank you. I would like to know if there can be a mass-energy equivalence where there can be energy without mass.

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