Physicist James Franson of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has captured the attention of the physics community by posting an article to the peer-reviewed New Journal of Physics in which he claims to have found evidence that suggests the speed of light as described by the theory of general relativity, is actually slower than has been thought. The theory of general relativity suggests that light travels at a constant speed of 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum. It's the c in Einstein's famous equation after all, and virtually everything measured in the cosmos is based on it—in short, it's pretty important. But, what if it's wrong? Franson's arguments are based on observations made of the supernova SN 1987A–it exploded in February 1987. Measurements here on Earth picked up the arrival of both photons and neutrinos from the blast but there was a problem—the arrival of the photons was later than expected, by 4.7 hours. Scientists at the time attributed it to a likelihood that the photons were actually from another source. But what if that wasn't what it was, Franson wonders, what if light slows down as it travels due to a property of photons known as vacuum polarization—where a photon splits into a positron and an electron, for a very short time before recombining back into a photon. That should create a gravitational differential, he notes, between the pair of particles, which, he theorizes, would have a tiny energy impact when they recombine—enough to cause a slight bit of a slowdown during travel. If such splitting and rejoining occurred many times with many photons on a journey of 168,000 light years, the distance between us and SN 1987A, it could easily add up to the 4.7 hour delay, he suggests. If Franson's ideas turn out to be correct, virtually every measurement taken and used as a basis for cosmological theory, will be wrong. Light from the sun for example, would take longer to reach us than thought, and light coming from much more distant objects, such as from the Messier 81 galaxy, a distance of 12 million light years, would arrive noticeably later than has been calculated—about two weeks later. The implications are staggering—distances for celestial bodies would have to be recalculated and theories that were created to describe what has been observed would be thrown out. In some cases, astrophysicists would have to start all over from scratch.
@Niburu: information must be conveyed instantaneously (or faster) over the great span of space. According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, anything that has mass can not travel faster-than-light (299,792 kilometers per second/186,282 mps). But massless torsion waves and massless tachyons are theoretically superluminal. Wormholes theoretically bend spacetime. In 1935, Einstein sarcastically referred to quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance". Experiments have since proven that the information that is shared between two particles that interact and then separate (even over long distances), in fact, travels superluminally. In 2011, it was proven that massless neutrinos travel slightly faster-than-light. Thought is also massless and can travel much faster-than-light! Thought can be faster than simultaneous. In other words, thought - especially God's thought - can travel back in time
of course, thats what iam saying, Thought being massless can travel faster-than-light, go back in time and produce a new chain ofevents resulting in synchronisms
information must be conveyed instantaneously (or faster) over the great span of space. According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, anything that has mass can not travel faster-than-light (299,792 kilometers per second/186,282 mps). But massless torsion waves and massless tachyons are theoretically superluminal. Wormholes theoretically bend spacetime. In 1935, Einstein sarcastically referred to quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance". Experiments have since proven that the information that is shared between two particles that interact and then separate (even over long distances), in fact, travels superluminally. In 2011, it was proven that massless neutrinos travel slightly faster-than-light. Thought is also massless and can travel much faster-than-light! Thought can be faster than simultaneous. In other words, thought - especially God's thought - can travel back in time, which is allowed under relativity.
A thought does not exist, outside of the brain that generates it. So, it takes time to form a thought, and time to "ponder" a thought. Time in this case, is measured in:
1. Time for the part of the brain to initiate process, added to;
2. Time it takes for the neurons to transmit to the various parts of the brain, to process the thought; added to;
3. Time it takes to "handshake", coordinate and come to an agreement
Okay... thoughts themselves may not have mass.....but the neurons that carry them do. Electrical impulses still have to follow a path....no matter how narrow that path may be. Electricity travels much slower than light...and are at the low end of the EM spectrum.
