| Subject: Light as a Constant |
| From: prime137@hotmail.com (In Fo) |
| Date: 05/02/2006, 04:14 |
| Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo |
Astronomers and physicists have estimated that even in the remotest
depths of intergalactic space there will probably be found, from three
to seven nuclear or atomic particles per cubic centimeter.
A beam of light traveling at approximately 3x10^10 centimeters per
second would still encounter a rather large number of such particles
during each second of its journey. (186,300 mps)
While it is true that the proportionate decrease in velocity which would
be produced by this minute concentration of matter is so small that it
might be negligible for all practical purposes of measurement,
nevertheless it demonstrates the fact that we have chosen as our sole
remaining 'constant, a quantity which actually can never be a perfect
constant anywhere in the known universe.
Fortunately there is a value to which the quantity C can be assigned
which is a constant. Moreover the assignment of the quantity C to this
factor makes possible a much better understanding of the natural laws
involved in the propagation of energy.
The quantity C is actually the kinetic energy equivalent of the mass
energy of matter.
In other words, if we take a gram (or any other quantity of matter:
(Newtonian mass) and convert that matter gradually into energy according
to the formula E=MC², and if the resultant energy, as it appeared,
were constantly applied to the remaining matter in such a way as to
accelerate it uniformly in a given direction, when all the matter had
been so converted we would find that we had zero Newtonian mass,
infinite inertial mass, and a resultant velocity equal to the quantity
C, or approximately 3x10^10 centimeters per second,or 186,300 mps, (with
respect to the given reference or starting point).
The maximum velocity attained would always be the same regardless of the
quantity of matter with which we started.
This is a fact which can easily be verified by anyone who is
mathematically inclined, and who is familiar with the laws of
acceleration.
The energy required to accelerate each gram of mass to the velocity c
through energy conversion is exactly equal to the total energy inherent
in any matter having that mass.
This fact forms the true basis of the statement in our present day
physics that the velocity c is a maximum or limiting velocity, since it
represents the greatest kinetic energy differential which can exist
between two given reference points.
Prime