jr writes> The closing of the paragraph should read ",,,rather than AND in abeyance..."
On Feb 23, 3:46 pm, johnlawrencereedjr <thejohnlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Visible light does not exist. Visible objects exist. Illuminated and > illuminating objects emit electromagnetic radiation at a frequency > detectable by the human eye. We cannot see EMR as it propagates > through space. Only as it illuminates and/or radiates from an object. > > Which means that we see objects as they are, in real time. The stars > in the sky also exist today, as we see them. We see illuminated > objects. It may be that a star say, a light year away that comes into > existence may not be visible to us until its EMR reaches us. But once > it reaches us, we detect its frequency (we see the star) in real time. > > This of course flies in the face of the accepted paradigm so don't use > any thing I write as an answer to a question on an exam. Go for the BS > until you graduate and even then take care with what you put forward. > Science is steeped in ignorance and can only respond to new ideas with > sluggish caution. > > I am saying that our eyes detect frequency of emission. There is no > such thing as little balls of visible light, so called photons, flying > around carrying old images, just so our eyes can detect (be fooled by) > them. It’s true that the EMR that arrives was emitted say light years > ago, the thing is we do not see the EMR picked up by mechanical > detectors. We see through space. We see the distant light source. > > Sound requires a medium to propagate through to reach our ears. > Illuminated objects are best seen through a vacuum. We see "over > there". EMR propagation is an efficient dispersion of energy and is > probably pushed (displaced) rather than in abeyance of Newton's first > law as re momentum. And again, if it is pushed, we see the pusher in > real time. > > Roemer can be accounted for with this view. > johnreed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
