X-Message-Number: 19145 From: Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:03:47 EDT Subject: Velocity of light --part1_ea.280ab8ea.2a1f9433_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I can't resist throwing in a little-known reference here, a book called Beyond the Quantum Paradox, by Lazar Mayants, Taylor & Francis, London, 1994. Prof. Mayants has Ph.D. in chemistry and D.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Moscow State University, and published papers in various professional journals. While his views are unorthodox, they are not dogmatic and not related to anything that might be called mystical. An earlier book of his was given unusual praise by Henry Margenau of Yale, an eminent philosopher of science. I won't go into the details here, but he gives reasons for thinking the rest mass of the photon is not zero and the speed of light--which may vary slightly with frequency--is a bit less than c. Robert Ettinger Cryonics Institute Immortalist Society www.cryonics.org --part1_ea.280ab8ea.2a1f9433_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19145