Name: Anonymous 2007-01-09 9:24
is a photon a form of energy?
if so how can it get bajillions (i made that word up but if you have half a brain i think you get what i mean) of miles away?
does light have infinite energy? or just infinite enertia? i know light is affected by gravity since it can be sucked up by black holes, but it seems to me that if there is no gravity, and the light does not spread apart.... well lets say somehow someone is traveling the same speed as light. he looks at a star. lets also say the particles do not spread out but stay paralell to each other in one direction, the direction of the path of the person's ship which also doesnt change. would the sun appear to be the same distance no matter how far you got?
controdicting myself here, doesnt light eventually die? or do the photon's themselves just spread out too much to not register it anymore? and if it never dies, why dont we just use light as an infinite power source? and i dont mean solar panels or the nuclear reactor of the sun's radiation bombardment.
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if so how can it get bajillions (i made that word up but if you have half a brain i think you get what i mean) of miles away?
does light have infinite energy? or just infinite enertia? i know light is affected by gravity since it can be sucked up by black holes, but it seems to me that if there is no gravity, and the light does not spread apart.... well lets say somehow someone is traveling the same speed as light. he looks at a star. lets also say the particles do not spread out but stay paralell to each other in one direction, the direction of the path of the person's ship which also doesnt change. would the sun appear to be the same distance no matter how far you got?
controdicting myself here, doesnt light eventually die? or do the photon's themselves just spread out too much to not register it anymore? and if it never dies, why dont we just use light as an infinite power source? and i dont mean solar panels or the nuclear reactor of the sun's radiation bombardment.
in b4 nerds, google, wikipedia, etc