Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Why Can't an Einstein Fan Define Light's 'Frequency'? Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:24:06 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 57 Message-ID: <6AC93146.46B6@ix.netcom.com> References: <18d88e958a7a1cbb$7390$2272267$4296dcc3@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <1s20hzp.d7zr1r1rnh35iN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <18d922faf2597448$614$2366380$4296dcc3@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <11a6res$1gqob$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net> <18dcca672318d78d$407$1700600$4206dc53@news.newsgroupdirect.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1112185"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/RP10Mi/66uAxYaC3vxAi+DdjD9MNtqpo="; posting-host="8478a6379ac5d25477ccf25555c1f170" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y/7mpr0F+jCUNIqAqehRtJkG988= sha256:mZSTIr1lEOuqPkYq+nr0UT//pQLoZSvW8G6FJA5so1A= sha1:zXvAglwTbPBZdk/X4mN3nPBcqD8= sha256:IXUlTDVmJcHI8pk9oAp/eCObTdtlteIc1PpPQNAFfWI= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 261009-2, 10/09/2026), Outbound message X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:674308 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 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. > >> > >> > > > > 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... -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.