Feed: Dr. Myron Evans
Posted on: Friday, December 23, 2011 4:42 AM
Author: metric345
Subject: 203(2): Geometrical Meaning of the Theory of Photon Mass
| This note defines the geometrical origin of Newton’s orbital theory in terms of the observations. It is shown that Newton’s theory is essentially geometrical, not in the sense of the obsolete Einstein theory but in the sense that Newton’s theory derives from a precessing ellipse in the limit x = 1, where x is the precession constant. The total energy E, kinetic energy T and potential energy V are geometrical quantities. The de Broglie equation is used to account for the fact that the photon is relativistic, it travels essentially at c. In this sense, special relativity is used to recognize that the Planck energy is the total relativistic translational kinetic energy of the particulate photon, i.e. the relativistic translational kinetic energy plus rest energy. For a photon with mass the latter is very small but not zero. The Einstein energy equation, from which gamma m c squared is derived, deals only with translational motion because it is a restatement of the relativistic translational linear momentum, p = gamma m v. With these careful definitions and estimates, the photon mass is derived from observation in a direct way, and is of the order of ten power minus fifty seven kilograms for one photon deflected by the sun.
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