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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Limit to the frequency of light?
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 03:32:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 03:32:57 1985
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> In article <11228@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
> >A photon swallowed by its self-gravity??  What have you been smoking?
> 
> 	Actually, he is probably *right*, common sense is totally
> useless in quantum physics, at that level the truth is often very
> wierd from a human point of view.

I wasn't questioning anything based on common sense, I was questioning
the meaning of the whole scenario on theoretical grounds.

> 	In fact the gravitational interactions of light, as predicted
> by quantum theory, have been well validated in the form of light being
> bent by massive obercts(such as the Sun, or a galaxy). The extension
> of this to the limiting case could well produce the effect specified.
> Remember, mass and "energy" are *equivalent*, thus the energy content
> of a photon is *also* a sort of mass.

?  Where can I read about this quantum theory of gravity?  I've been
wanting one of those for a long time.

Be careful trying to explain physics to me; I was a theoretical
physicist in an previous existence.  I may think your careless
sloshing together of half-understood concepts a bit naive.  :-)