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A photon is electromagnetic radiation. They are the same thing. I dont see how energy is an abstract concept. Seems pretty non-abstract to me. Anyway, there is no reason for your ideas to be correct. The concept of energy and work work just fine with photons, there is no reason to believe there is a problem with the theory.

Ummm, no? The wavelength increases for a few reasons. If it is moving out of a gravitational field it will lose engery. If you are moving away from it when you detect it, it will appear to be of longer wavelength. The expansion of the universe causes wavelength to stretch out over large distances. These occur on an astronomical scale, and would not be detectable with the human eye. Plus, I'm not sure what you mean when you say it gets wider. It gets wider in what way, and how would this effect anything? This is an optical illusion anyway.

Nope.

Who is Hoagland? I dont know what you are talking about here.

At the very least it makes you think. Perhaps re-examine why the US is in Iraq for example. I really liked Colin Powel and Codelliza Rice talking about how Iraq wasn't a threat to anybody. Sure its biased to all hell, but so much stuff isn't presented in the American media, it gives you a different viewpoint anyway.

Indeed. There are lots of math tricks that I've never memorized. Like "cross multiply and devide". This has something to do with fractions, and everyone else uses it. I havn't a clue on what it is, but I dont need it since I just work it out in my head anyway. On test day, you cannot forget something you never learned in the first place. This has helped me many times.

Yes. I forget the expanded equation for this, but as you approach c your mass increases accordingly.

I come from a forum where there are no trolls. Its the Penny Arcade forums, they have a reputation as being one of the most hateful places on the internet. If a newbie comes in and starts talking with incoherent posts, stupid questions or just plain idiocy, the forum flames the shit out of said newbie. As such, people's posts are easy to read, and you get little in the way of newbie stupidity. Plus, no trolls. Now, I'm not saying we should do that here, since this is a forum that needs to be supportive of peoples ideas and be willing to offer constructive critisism. Uh... I thought I had a final point at the start of this, maybe I dont. How's about we just ban him? Doesn't this forum have anti-troll rules? edit: i just looked back and it seems his post was deleted. I guess that works as well. I'd still support a banning however.

This year I went to ottawa on a class trip. It was fun.

Its a really big storm. Everything I have seen indicates that the mechanisms behind the storm are well understood, its just had a really long time to grow. Actually, its been shrinking since it was discovered, and it will be gone completely in some amount of time. Its just a storm like on earth, only on a vastly larger scale as far as I know.

Could be, but probably not. Personally, I think these new phenomenon we are detecting, the acceleration of the expansion of the universe, all the mass that is missing, I think this may because there is a fundamental, but yet unknown flaw in one of our theories. We didn't notice it at first because the effect is so small, but there are lots of oddities like this. Thats just pure speculation by the way. We dont have any reason to believe photons lose energy in such a way. They lose energy when climing up a gravity well, and their frequencies can change if they interact with matter on the way here. Otherwise its the difference in velocities. I agree that redshift seems to be defended with great zeal, which is rarely seen in this field. There certainly could be a problem with it, but as of this moment, not one that I know.

The net entropy of a system always increases. It can decrease in some places, as long as it increases by a bunch in another area.

Wouldn't some energy be lost due to gravitational waves?

1veedo, how sure are you about that? I've never heard about relativity having more than 4. What are the other two?

Maybe there is a fractal link, maybe there isn't. I've never heard of one for this sort of thing.

Well, no. Nobody ever thought the sound barrier was actually a barrier for anything but a plane. They could shoot bullets and rockets faster than the speed of sound no problem, and were doing so long before building aircraft capapble of such a feat were possible. Its that air flow changes at that speed, which had a tendancy to wreck airplanes. There is no theoretical restrictions on traveling faster than sound. There is however, and extremely large theoretical restriction on travelling at c, such a rediculously large restriction that hypothosizing about it is decidedly tricky, because of all the wierd stuff that would happen, ie the object having infinite mass. The only barrier for the sound... barrier was an engineering one. For c, well, there are lots.

Light bends when it passes through a gravitational field. It bends by a very very very small amount, but it does bend. You would not be able to detect this with the human eye.

Which is friction. Liquids have friction as well.

I tried that on my modem and gave up after like 7 minutes. It must be big.

Oh I know, I think its a valid question as well, just a question that I have no idea how to answer. I was just responding to philbo1965uk's comment.