[TheForge] YAK relativity- WAY OT, or not...

Tue Jan 6 17:52:00 2004

From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>

>
> By the way here folks X-rays escape from Blackholes indicating the ability
to
> move at a velocity greater than C...just to enrich this discussion
>

Then if light doesn't escape from a black hole doesn't that show that light
IS affected by gravity?

Darrell

http://www.machinemaster.com
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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] YAK relativity- WAY OT, or not...

> In a message dated 1/6/2004 1:48:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
> > It's just that bodies seem to develop infinite mass as they approach c,
>
>     Photons don't. :)
> This is due to the fact that photons are virtually massless particles as I
> recall
>
> > That was the first thing I noticed during my study of special
relativity- if
> > a light source is moving away from you, then the light emitted that is
also
> > traveling away from you is moving at more than c relative to you. Duh!
>
>
> Even if this was true and assuming no other forces acting on a measured
> velocity of 7C, this would mena the photon was emitted from 6 other
sources
> traveling at C...ie a star somehow a C emits an x-ray at c emits ......
etc etc
>
> By the way here folks X-rays escape from Blackholes indicating the ability
to
> move at a velocity greater than C...just to enrich this discussion
>
> Ted Jones...just an avid science buff
>
>
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