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Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'?

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Ross Finlayson wrote:
> 
> On 10/09/2026 12:01 AM, HenryWilson wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Oct 2026 03:25:46 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> >
> >> HenryWilson wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:13:41 +0200, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >>>> HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> wrote:
> >>>>> After all, it is arguably the most important quantity not just for
> >>>>> supporting Einstein but also for the whole of modern Physics...and
> >>>>> apparently, it  doesn't even exist.
> >>>>
> >>>> Go tell those people at NIST, or BIPM,
> >>>> or any other metrology institute.
> >>>> They have defined all of physics measurement in terms of measuring
> >>>> frequencies.
> >>>>
> >>>> See how far you will get with them,
> >>>
> >>> I'll just send them my book free of charge, signed by the author. It
> >>> explains that light does not possess a 'frequency'.  [...]
> >>
> >> Provided they bother to read it, they will surely have a good laugh.
> >>
> >> The moment you realize that reality does not care about what you,
> >> philosophizing in in your armchair, claim, but just is as it is,
> >> including the fact that light is an electromagnetic wave (as Young's
> >> double-slit experiment, among others, showed/-s) which like all waves
> >> _does_ have a frequency, you will have a chance to become a mentally
> >> sane person again.
> >>
> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light#Wave_theory>
> >
> > Maybe you should stick with philosophy. As any good Physicist should know,
> > transverse travelling waves do not have an intrinsic frequency. They have
> > an absolute wavelength and will induce a frequency on being
> > intercepted...namely 'wave arrival rate' 'WAR'...just like running a saw
> > blade over a sharp edge...the teeth don't oscillate...but indoctrinees of
> > Einstein and most of Physics top academics are too dumb to understand
> > that. The 'frequency of light' appears everywhere in modern physics...yet
> > it doesn't even exist. I'm not in the least worried about the fact that I
> > am the only person in the world smart enough to know that.
> > Maxwell's equations describe what light DOES not what it IS...so it is
> > natural to believe that whatever travels from A to B light is
> > electromagnetic because that's what it generates...but that is not the
> > whole story...and it might not be true.
> >
> 
> Huygens principle is "waves make waves". There also the other Huygens
> principle, here though that "waves make waves".


i thought it was the moon that made the wave...
-- 
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to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-09-25 12:00 +0000
  Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-25 11:09 -0700
    Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-09-26 10:16 +0000
      Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-26 09:02 -0700
  Why can one not define the frequency of light? (was: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-09-26 13:32 +0200
    Re: Why can one not define the frequency of light? (was: Why Can't an  Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'?) The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-26 09:23 -0700
  Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-09-26 22:13 +0200
    Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-09-27 09:19 +0000
      Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-10-08 03:25 +0200
        Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-07 18:39 -0700
        Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-09 07:01 +0000
          Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-10-09 11:27 +0200
            Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-13 07:31 +0000
              Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-10-13 10:46 +0200
              Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-13 08:13 -0700
          Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-09 06:36 -0700
            Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-09 11:24 -0700
            Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-13 07:33 +0000
              Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-13 08:16 -0700
                Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-13 19:05 +0000
      Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-10-09 12:57 +0200
        Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-11 03:12 +0000
          Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-10-11 12:35 +0200
            Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Eladio Kartalov <ola@aaoaaait.ru> - 2026-10-11 11:47 +0000
            Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Emerson Bakurov <rnvum@roovnoe.ru> - 2026-10-11 11:52 +0000
              Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-11 07:40 -0700
                Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Lucien Lutov <uul@euuv.ru> - 2026-10-11 16:43 +0000
                Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-11 17:36 -0700
                Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-11 18:14 -0700
                Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-10-11 18:40 -0700
            Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-11 22:56 +0000

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