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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: FUSION (this decade?)
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:31:38 EDT
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> how is everyone so sure that the photon exists in 3 dimensional
> space during every moment of its travel?
I, for one, seem to believe that it effectively exists, i.e. "couples" only
in one dimension.  I have already been corrected on this very net concerning
the errant ways of my thinking on that, too.  (Thus no repeats are needed).
> Perhaps it 'rotates' in and out of conventional space at a frequency
> dependant upon its energy level. I guess this might account for its
> wave-like nature.  Then again, maybe I don't know what the heck
> I'm talking about..
> 		Oh well, just a thought.
Yes.  Looks like we need a new newsgroup (shudder).  Call it net.thought, eh? 
For seriously researched but physically unverified proposals, net.thought.deep
might be more appropriate... :-)
This is, after all, net.physics - as such, Physics is quite demanding with
respect to what constitutes a bonafide physical theory.  Gwyn et al have
listed the qualifications for serious submissions:  Mathematical description
of a real, observable, physical processes.  I think with a little bashing away,
you could get them to relax the mathematical requirements, but they will still
require repeatable demonstrative properties.  In order to save the time of
serious physicists and escape the metaphysical and pseudo-science discussions,
perhaps there should be a net.physics.expert as well.  Has this been discussed?
								     Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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