Cadmus

I am one of the people who will say that C++ is more powerful than C in many ways. OOP is a very important and powerful improvement over C. Do you disagree?

Although you may well be right that this is the source of the confusion, I thought, and still think I guess, otherwise. I think that his statement that space is not 4 dimensional was in response to my post #9, which was in response to post #2, where it was suggested that space is 4 dimensional, and perhaps that time is a dimension of space.

OK. Sorry about that.

I fail to understand how your argument supports the idea that time might be counted as the fourth dimension of space, as opposed to being a different sort of dimension, a dimension of time.

I am proposing that light travels in waves, and when the wave front interacts with space-time, it imparts an effect that can be quantized. This quantization is not a particle, but rather the particle concept is merely a way to symbolize the quantization of the interaction of light waves with space-time.

Of all of your axioms, I consider that only number II is a true axiom. The others are far from fundamental, and do not constitute axioms. Furthermore, I strongly disagree with axiom II, and I am not alone. Many scientists do not consider that there are only 3 dimensions of space. However, for the purposes of any given model of physics, such as one that you might propose, it is fair to make it axiomatic that there are 3 dimensions of space. Euclidean geometry certainly does, and no matter how poor a model of reality Euclidean geometry is, it has certainly proven itself to be an extremely useful model of reality.

In the dichotomy in which he is using the term space, any dimensions of time arte not counted as dimensions of space.

Does this demonstrate that light comes in chunks, or that light interaction with objects in space-time is quantized. These are two different things.

I agree. I would do away with the particle completely. When a tsunami wave crashed into Indonesia, Thailand, Somalia, etc., in each case it was the exact same wave (set of waves). Different parts of the wave front hit different locals. The various land forms were subjected to an imparting of a large amount of energy. If we consider that in the case of light this energy takes specific quanta, why could we not consider that Indonesia, etc. absorbed, or were hit by, photons of water. In other words, when a light wave front encounters space-time, it imparts energy. That energy is quantized. That quanta can be called a photon. However, why must that photon refer to a particle at all? It could simply be a name given to the quantum of energy imparted by interaction with the wave front. Why is the concept of an independent particle object even necessary?

How would your understanding of the effect of photons differ if you were to consider photons as a quantization of the interaction that occurs when light waves interact with space-time in their path.

I would think that a biology teacher might realize this. I once met an extremely nice biology teacher in high school, who was teaching on the basis of a single class that he took in school. It is difficult enough to find a baby sitter for biology class, let alone hope that he might know a little about biology.

If I thought that you are a nut case, then why would I respond to you as though you are not? You introduced him as a biology teacher, not as a person with a personal point of view. Anyway, I can't imagine how a person with any real knowledge of biology might develop such a point of view.

Check Paris Hilton's email list. Maybe you will get lucky and it will be there.

You are using addition instead of subtraction. As you say, they paid $27 for the room. The hotel gets $25 and the bell hop get $2. There is no reason to add $2 above and beyond the $27 that they paid to get $29, a number devoid of meaning.

Excellent point. I do not think that it is extermely useful to consider light as a stream of particles. Instead, light is stream of waves. The word photon can be thought of as the name of the interaction that occurs when light waves interact with space-time in their path.

Interesting idea. I like it.

Why not rerun it, and save every 10,000 or so to a different file.

A zigabye is 1024 yigabytes.

I have to open and read text files larger than 10 zigabytes on a daily basis. Do you want to open the entire file at once? If so, double click it. That is the fastest way that I know in Windows OS. Right clicking is slower. If you want to read only a part of the file, write a program using your favorite language to display a small portion of the file.

What cultures, and particularly what eastern cultures?

A large number of societies have developed taboos against marriage to closely related relatives. Exogamy has been practiced by most societies, I believe. The science that I read decades ago gave scientific explanations of why this is a good thing. I don't know if your article is correct or not.

Yes. Cosmologists consider the age of the universe to be some 14 billion years. The fact that the speed of light is finite means the light from anywhere further than that will not have reached us yet and so cannot be viewed.