This is more in your area Jerry. Didn't Keely do something with
this? Share with us if he did. Warren
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Jerry Wayne Decker wrote:
>
> Hi Jim, Warren, et al!
>
> Its interesting this comparison of the speed of
> 'sound' as similar to the speed of 'light'.
>
> What is sound? 440cps, 1000cps? There is no generic
> term. It makes no sense to say 'speed of sound'
> because sound is the propagation of a wave (which is
> variable) through air. And the air can only move so
> fast and change so fast so the medium determines the
> 'speed' of the acoustic frequency(ies).
>
> If you inject sound in mass, it moves FASTER because
> the mass is more compacated and less spread out,
> therefore the 'speed of sound' is dependent on the
> media through which it moves.
>
> This is the index of refraction;
>
> http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/9e.html
>
> for sound,
>
> n = 1 in air;
> n = .06 in glass;
> n = .23 in water;
> n= 6.1 in rubber;
>
> for light (of wavelength 589.3 nm),
>
> n = 1 in a vacuum;
> n = 1.0003 in air;
> n = 1.333 in water;
> n = 1.336 in vitreous humour (inside the eye);
> n = 1.413 in the eye's lens;
> n = 1.52 in crown glass;
> n = 1.61 in flint glass, and
> n = 2.42 in diamond.
>
> Air and the speed of sound;
>
> http://www.treasure-troves.com/physics/Air.html
>
> The same applies to light. What is 'light'? It is
> red, just as surely as it is also blue, green,
> etc..and the composite of those colors is 'white',
> though it can also produce 'black'...
>
> So aren't red, green and blue 'light' all at different
> frequencies? And because of being different
> frequencies, they will move at different velocities.
>
> Index of refraction samples for light;
>
> http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~lvw/lvw_page/99jan05_lec01/sld002.htm
>
> excellent demo;
> http://wigner.byu.edu/LightRefract/LightRefract.html
>
> So what is 'light'? Is it like Tesla said highly
> charged particles that stream off excited matter and
> it appears when it strikes another mass? Is it the
> propagation of an EM wave through transparent or
> translucent media?
>
> Is that EM wave producing light as it passes? Or does
> it produce light ONLY WHEN IT STRIKES SOMETHING?
>
> Light is emitted from collapsing electron shells in
> excited mass. Is that not true?
>
> Does that mean Tesla was correct? If not, what then is
> light?
>
> The references to a 'constant' seem to rely on light
> moving in a vacuum, without being subject to
> temperature, humidity, electric or magnetic fields
> that could distort it. What about gravity? What
> about ZPE which appears to come in waves if Win
> Lambertsen and others are correct in their
> assessments?
>
> To my view 'fixed' speeds even in ideal situations are
> a crude reference based on normal situations to
> determine a working value, but not absolutely a fact.
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