Ponderlust
8th March 2009 - 11:50 PM
Light and it's behavior as a wave-particle kinda gave me an idea pertaining to Universal Expansion.
Light being affected by gravity must logically allow the assumption that light itself has as mass and then also obviously some gravity.
Now if you took the sum of all light that has ever been created and its accruing gravitational effect. This could dip into dimensional lifespan and not just our own universe.
If you applied the current light production of the universe for the last 17 billion years in a forever expanding bubble around us, along with the idea that it could also account for some of the dark matter/energy effects we can plainly show mathematically.
There would also be an accounting for the light not only emitted from the big-bang, but also for any light before the big-bang.
So if you took the light production of our universe and found out how long it would take to create that amount of light you could get an idea for dimensional age.
Possibly even dibbling into the idea that it may have even created the big-bang due to the fact that we do have an expanding universe that is accelerating...
Just dreaming, any input would be entertaining.
AlexG
8th March 2009 - 11:54 PM
QUOTE
Light being affected by gravity must logically allow the assumption that light itself has as mass and then also obviously some gravity.
Why? Photons have no mass. You assume that only mass is effected by gravity. What's the justification for that assumption?
Ponderlust
9th March 2009 - 12:14 AM
Photons exhibit mass-like properties
That was a little vague
My apologies
Cusa
9th March 2009 - 01:16 AM
QUOTE (Ponderlust+Mar 9 2009, 12:14 AM)
Photons exhibit mass-like properties
That was a little vague
My apologies
ElectroMagnetic light waves must collapse their energy into matter. Einstein questioned his photon in the end. I am picking up there where he left off. I propose collapsing energy waves into mass instead of particles.
Mitch Raemsch
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