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Re: Newton and the speed of light

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> > On 10/24/2026 11:15 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >> On 10/24/2026 09:47 AM, HenryWilson wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:21:36 -0700, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>>> On 10/23/2026 10:42 AM, HenryWilson wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:47:03 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> >>>>>> Ponder on a photon riding a gravitational field line. Plotting field
> >>>>>> lines is fun. Some 2d examples of mine:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://youtu.be/Doeci7xBYh0
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://youtu.be/hOieGunExoc
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yeh! Nice..
> >>>>
> >>>> No, that's "films" since Lucretius, you're an idiot.
> >>>
> >>> I meant 'nice artistically'...very surreal,  ...bugger the meaning, if
> >>> any.
> >>
> >> Well that's agreeable, the harshness of calling you an idiot
> >> is readily belayed by open conscientiousness as an example.
> >>
> >> Light is free, _if metered_, propagation of information
> >
> > How many photons can an electron emit? Limitless? :^)
> In theory, there is no upper limit to the wavelength λ of light, and the
> energy of a photon is inversely proportional to the wavelength (E = â„Ž f
> = ℎ c/λ); so a free electron can emit "countably infinitely many"
> photons with an arbitrarily small energy without violating the condition
> that its energy cannot be smaller than its zero-point energy.
> 
> However, if the electron is in a bound state, it can only have discrete
> energies.  When the ground (lowest-energy) state is reached, an electron
> cannot emit a photon, thus cannot lose energy.  That is how we (can)
> explain that atoms are stable and how we can exist:
> 
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Hydrogen Atom Simulator
> <https://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/light/hydrogenatom.html>
> 
> --
> PointedEars
> 
> Twitter: @PointedEars2
> Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

Looks like I found some pointed ears in the state of Delaware!



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