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A thread so i can ask a couple of questions?

 

1. A LONG STICK.

 

If i had a stick that would not bend or compress, A foot shorter than our galaxy,

And i was able to push this stick wether it had zero weight or on some kind of roller system,

 

If i pushed it 1 foot 1 inch, Would the other end instantly stick out the galaxy?

A thread so i can ask a couple of questions?

 

1. A LONG STICK.

 

If i had a stick that would not bend or compress, A foot shorter than our galaxy,

And i was able to push this stick wether it had zero weight or on some kind of roller system,

 

If i pushed it 1 foot 1 inch, Would the other end instantly stick out the galaxy?

It's impossible to have an unbendable, incompressible stick. It would require a material through which the speed of sound is faster than c.
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A few days ago someone posted a video about strobe effects,"which was locked", which showed how we can use strobes to freeze frame speeding objects.

 

I wondered how far we had come using strobe lighting, I did not realize this is basically what a electron microscope is,

In 1 attosecond light will travel the length of 3 hydrogen atoms,

We have been able to generate a pulse of 67 attoseconds, but I think we are close now to sub 20 attosecond pulses,

 

I was wondering how far we are away from stopping a single photon,"light as already been stopped within a crystal" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380028/Scientists-stop-light-completely-record-breaking-MINUTE-trapping-inside-crystal.html

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I have been looking for the length of a photon, whether this length restricts the speed of c, And whether this will help us understand why the speed of c is what it is,

 

When i "imagine" a beam of light, I see a traffic jam each photon tailgating the next, turning single particles into a wave, each travelling at the same speed unable to overtake,

nature_light_photons.gif

Unsure how to word this but,

Could the speed of c, Be the "strobe cycle" of photons, Are we viewing realty/light at sub attosecond cycles, So each photon moves up one space/distance each sub attosecond cycle?

 

cycle/length of photon=speed of light c.

 

 

I wondered how far we had come using strobe lighting, I did not realize this is basically what a electron microscope is,

I don't think your "realization" has any validity. How is an electron microscope a strobe?

 

 

In 1 attosecond light will travel the length of 3 hydrogen atoms,

We have been able to generate a pulse of 67 attoseconds, but I think we are close now to sub 20 attosecond pulses,

 

I was wondering how far we are away from stopping a single photon,"light as already been stopped within a crystal" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380028/Scientists-stop-light-completely-record-breaking-MINUTE-trapping-inside-crystal.html

Journalistic(and scientific) hyperbole. Nobody has stopped photons — they travel at c. The light was "trapped" in that the information in the light (the phase and polarization) were not lost when it was absorbed, and was faithfully preserved when the system re-emitted the light.

 

 

I have been looking for the length of a photon, whether this length restricts the speed of c, And whether this will help us understand why the speed of c is what it is,

 

When i "imagine" a beam of light, I see a traffic jam each photon tailgating the next, turning single particles into a wave, each travelling at the same speed unable to overtake,

 

Unsure how to word this but,

Could the speed of c, Be the "strobe cycle" of photons, Are we viewing realty/light at sub attosecond cycles, So each photon moves up one space/distance each sub attosecond cycle?

 

cycle/length of photon=speed of light c.

How would you test this idea to check it?

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I don't think your "realization" has any validity. How is an electron microscope a strobe?

 

I was referring to "femto ultrafast electron microscope that uses a pulse of electrons instead of a continuous electron beam".

http://www.fei.com/tecnai-femto/

 

 

How would you test this idea to check it?

I am unsure at this moment, I don't think we will until we can generate a pulse to allow us to freeze frame a photon, Which i do not believe will be far away.

Whether it will be done with multiple lasers all pulsing at slightly varying rates or some other breakthrough technology i will wait and see.

But when we do freeze frame photons i am sure it will help to answer why the speed of c is what it is.

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