sci.physics.research

On Aug 19, 8:38 pm, patpowerss...@ wrote:
>
> I've gone down the same road, inspired by an old thread in this group
> about a photon interfering with itself in an inferometer with unequal
> length arms. The discussion is lengthy and I really recommend that
> you read it.

I'll look it up.

> Consider this: you are in a space ship traveling down an infinitely
> long ruler. The faster you go, the closer together the marks on the
> ruler appear. If you able to go at the speed of light, then the
> distance between the marks is zero: all marks are in a sense in the
> same place. ... [snip]... So space-time disappears from
> the point of view of a photon. It is as if it has shrunk to zero
> size. I would guess that it would be completely undetectable if it
> were not for interactions with matter.

This seems consistent with my "contact interaction" view, tho' I lean
towards the view that without the interactions of matter perhaps the
photon, such as it might be, can't exist at all.

P