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Old 02-September-2007, 04:20 AM
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Default Light's preferred frame of reference

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Originally Posted by RussT View Post
Evidently, there is.

That would be lights own 'Preferred' reference frame, where light is simultaneous at all points along its path to infinty, or from source to sink, and where photons experience NO Time as they travel in this 'preferred' frame.


And, I am saying that Einsteins defining of light as simultaneous at all points along its path to infinity, and photons experiencing NO TIME in its own frame, and THEN determining that light in its own frame is NOT a valid inertial frame, is the mathematical culprit of all of this...

If we look at this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia...e_of_reference

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Originally Posted by Wiki
Einstein's theory of special relativity likewise assumes the equivalence of all inertial reference frames, but makes a different additional assumption, namely, that the speed of light is the same when measured in all inertial reference frames.
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And then...Hence, with respect to an inertial frame, an object or body accelerates only when a physical force is applied, and (following Newton's first law of motion), in the absence of a net force, a body at rest will remain at rest and a body in motion will continue to move uniformly—i.e. in a straight line and at constant speed.

Then, quite simply, light considered as the 'particle' and not the 'wave', meets the definition of being 'inertial' even in its own frame.

AND, that makes Time and Space...*Dimesionless*

We know that light, in Vacua, travels at 186,000 miles for each second that passes. Why would it be defined any other way? Answer...to make the Lorentz contractions and Time dilation TE's work mathematically

I think I uderstand everything you wrote and then I think I don't understand anything you wrote. The idea that light is everywhere everywhen is one of the reasons why I suspect there is something underlaying the whole mess.

Regarding your statement about making things work mathematically. I have read the same thing about warped space time. If the path of light is curved by gravitational fields, then you can say that light DOES NOT travel in a straight line, but follows gravitational fields, or you can say that light DOES travel in straight lines but space and time are warped, and we choose the later because it makes the math easier.