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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:06 pm 
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Yes, thanks for posting this! I think I actually understand some of it! 8) :lol:

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I'm glad y'all are finding the chat useful. Tim did a great job sticking in pictures and editing the conversation to stay on topic.

Frank, as always, is up for another chat. If I can convince my wife that the amount of time for the last chat was an aberration, I might have one more chance to chat before my month-long trip to Rome ( \:D/ ). Maybe last weekend in April, or first weekend in May.


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Here's a nice topic for a next one:

The Huygens principle; refraction, reflection and diffraction explained.

I'd attend that one for sure! :o


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YES!! I want to sit in on that one! Could the time be after church hours? [-o< Or a day other than Sunday (in the U.S.)???

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Christiaan Huygens, eh? Nice Dutch tie-in there.

Actually, Huygen's Principle is pretty cool. Although you have to throw Fresnel in there if you want to discuss diffraction.

I like this topic, but unfortunately, this will have to wait some time. From this weekend, I'll be incommunicado probably until July.


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That's ok... I might come in and communicado a bit over a peroni. Gotta see how things go next month...


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Hey mate if you like to talk about about the light why not extends your theme toward the UV light and the fluorescence of the minerals?


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We have a page in the Gemology Project that may answer any questions or confusions you have.
http://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/ind ... uorescence


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Edit: I found the vault! Great stuff and many new hours will be spent!


Great thing with this saved chat!

Are there more of them?

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A *very* interesting chat. It is, of course, impossible to do this kind of thing without minor errors and approximations.

One I noted (which probably should go without saying) and which does not affect any of the conclusions drawn, is that while light has no rest mass, it does indeed have mass in the sense that it gravitationally attracts things.

Here is a kind of funny reference...

Einstein said that light is deflected by a massive object - but is light gravitationally deflected by light? Tolman, Ehrenfest and Podolsky discovered that in the weak field limit, two light beams moving in the same direction do not interact gravitationally, but two light beams moving in the opposite direction do.

Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/d ... 266/page-2


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dchallener wrote:
It is, of course, impossible to do this kind of thing without minor errors and approximations.

One I noted (which probably should go without saying) and which does not affect any of the conclusions drawn, is that while light has no rest mass, it does indeed have mass in the sense that it gravitationally attracts things.

Did you just write this to irk me? There are approximations suitable for a given audience. Lots of them, I'm sure. But my saying "light has no mass" is no error and no approximation.

In contrast, saying light has no rest mass is an error of nonsense, because light is never at rest in any inertial frame.

Similarly implying light "does indeed have mass" is just wrong. In your reference, no one ever says light has mass. That light interacts with gravity fields is quite true, but it does so through its E and B fields' energy density terms; it does not have a mass density.


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No, I didn't say it to irk you. Actually I tried pretty hard to make it clear that I wasn't. I am really honest in saying you can't make a presentation like that and be totally precise. You couldn't cover what you did precisely in less than several semesters. And you did the best job of explaining it without being WRONG anywhere that I have seen short of Feynman.

But I was also trying to be precise in saying it has mass "in the sense of exerting a gravitational force".

The Podalsky quote was fun, because when two photons are moving in the same direction, the would be (in some funny sense) motionless relative to one another, and hence have no mass - and exert no gravitational force- and that is what the equations came out to - they did not attract one another.
I thought that was funny - perhaps my sense of humor is merely warped.


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