Sunday, June 9, 2013

The nature of light

In 1905 a German science magazine Anneals de Funk published Albert Einstein's first theory of relativity. It was titled the dynamics of moving bodies, all about the special circumstance of motion of sunlight from the sun speed scale. The theory evolved from just one question. What would it be like to travel the same speed as the sun's light?

We observe the sun's light as a steady light but is a waving sheet of particles called photons. Classical physics tells us each particle oscillates back and forth many times per second. They accelerate and slow down to a stop reaccelerating the opposite direction to slow down to a stop and reaccelerate back the other direction again repeating the cycle. Quantum physics has us believe they quantum jump a Planck constant.

A Planck constant is a 43 decimal number. As far as length is concerned 40,   0's,   626 of a meter.(  Or a 40 decimal number total 626 of a millimetre ). Scientific notation of such a large fraction is 6 point 2,   6 divided by 10,   43 times ( 6.26 times 10 to the minus 43 ). The reciprocal tells the same number in the positive value, 626,   40,   0's. ( 6.26 times 10,  43 times,   6.26 times 10 to the 43 power ). The Planck constant is the absolute value of the universe, representing gravity, energy, length and time both in the minus and positive values.

The minus value represents a quantum jump distance and the positive value the number of times in a second. In other words each photon disappears and reappears in a Planck length the frequency of the positive value.

If we do the math's on this ( taking a thousand meters equals a kilometer for example ), projects 300 million meters should be the same as saying 300,thousand kilometers. Under the circumstance every second the sun's light reaches earth will be 00,000km away from earth in a second. The same with the next second, the second after that indefinitely. Lets look at this in another example

The sunlight of the sun we observe arrived on earth this very second left the sun just under 8 minutes ago by the time you read this sentence is 300,000km away from earth every second.

Inversely worthy of "Replies believe it or not" we won't observe the the sunlight that just left it this very second until eight minutes into the future. We are always observing our sun's light as it was 8 minutes ago every 300,000km ahead of us every second. No matter how fast we travel on earth our sun's light is always a distance of 300,000km ahead of us.

Note we can walk a meter in the same time. We can all be pretty good at judging a meter per second simply by adjusting the speed we walk as we say "One thousand and one."  In other words the sun's sunlight travels just under 300 million meters by the time we walk 1 meter.

As there is 300 million meters in 300,000km mathematics tells us the reciprocal tells the sunlight we observe travels a meter in 300 millionth second. The standard metric system micro for a million tells us travels a meter 300 millionth second we the same time a meter in a second.

If we view the universe from a light speeds point of view we are traveling in parallel with the sun's light. Mathematics projects if we travel at the sunlight speed on earth we'd travel the circumference a fraction under 7 times in a second. Imagine viewing the world at that velocity.

Einstein realized the shear G-force pressure at that speed in the vacuum of space would be immense. The Planck constant tells us would not infinite but really finite. The positive value tells us the G-force factor in solar masses. One solar mass is the gravitational pull of the mass of the sun. The inward pull  of the G-force is a positive Planck constant nowhere near infinite. It is a maximum. The G's cannot be any heavier because the sun's light doesn't travel any faster.

It is not due to friction when feel bicycle pumps heat pumping up tires. At the speed of light the G-force pressure temperature reaches a maximum of the positive value of the Planck constant. The temperature cannot get any hotter because light doesn't travel any faster.

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