EPTAlso, in the dragon boat case, the boat passes some of its momentum to the water which causes it to flow back. If photons did this to the "darkness", they would lose momentum proportionally to the distance traveled, i.e become redder (if the "darkness" is uniformely distributed). This means that if you look at a light bulb from different distances, its going to have a different color (depending on the momentum loss per unit distance)!
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glassmazarin
Sweden158 Posts
Also, in the dragon boat case, the boat passes some of its momentum to the water which causes it to flow back. If photons did this to the "darkness", they would lose momentum proportionally to the distance traveled, i.e become redder (if the "darkness" is uniformely distributed). This means that if you look at a light bulb from different distances, its going to have a different color (depending on the momentum loss per unit distance)! | ||
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SilverSkyLark
Philippines8437 Posts
but then that would imply that Light would be similar to XRays, which are two of the things that shook the physics world during the early 1900. | ||
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glassmazarin
Sweden158 Posts
XRays are light! Gamma rays are light. Radio waves are light. They all just have different energy, or wavelengths. Compton scattering refers to photons (light) scattering off electrons (or any charged particle), losing some of its energy in the process. There is inverse Compton scattering too, where the photon gains energy from the electron (it depends on the photon and electron initial energies and stuff). This would mean that the darkness is made up of charged particles and should emit light by itself when it accelerates/decelerates. It would also mean that light could scatter off of a darkness particle, if the darkness is thick enough we would actually see it when its illuminated (depending on the energy of the photon emitted/scattered). Are all objects that are not glowing filled with darkness already? | ||
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SilverSkyLark
Philippines8437 Posts
Your question is a bit tricky, because if I said that all things that aren't glowing filled with darkness then I'm implying that things that have color are filled with darkness. However, things with colors are a different case. We were taught in physics class that objects with colors, or colors themselves, are light, traveling at a different wavelength. When objects get hit by light, they absorb that certain wavelength(s) and viola! Colored objects. It can be viewed as that object being assigned to absorb that certain wavelength, or all the more, that object is absorbing that wavelength. They are parallel to us human beings, they create shadows, weaken light (however infinitesimal) by absorbing wavelength/s. | ||
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