/sci/ - Science & Math

Every time you try to use light to define units of time, you make Einstein cry.

Please, think of Einstein.

>>2189070
There is no wave-particle duality. Both "wave" and "particle" are abstractions used to understand very small things with no analog in the larger world.

Both abstractions are incomplete, and fail to explain every behavior observed in the subatomic world.

>>2144658
When you see somebody standing a long distance away from you, they seem very small. You might think, therefore, that they you might appear as a giant to them... but instead, you look just as small from their point of view. In fact, it's impossible for either of you to determine whether you're a long way from him, or he's a long way from you just based on how large you appear.

That's relativity.

Galileo commented that when you're flying in an airplane at 400 miles per hours and accidentally drop your packet of peanuts it doesn't fly backwards and shatter the skull of the flight attendant. In fact, if you close your eyes and there's no turbulence, it's easy to imagine you aren't moving at all.

That's relativity.

>>1936578
Light doesn't move. At the speed of light there is no time, so the photon is simultaneously in every place it will ever be... a standing wave.

No.There is no such thing as "surpassing the speed of light".

>>1797685
Yes, this is a common misconception. There is no such thing as "absolute speed".