"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Peter wrote:
If the photon creates a shock wave in the aether then it must be
imparting some energy into the aether and the photon should slow down
over time.

Photons cannot slow down but you could be right about
them losing energy over time. Lengthening the wavelength
of a photon is certainly a loss of energy. That could
explain the red-shift of light from distant galaxies.

"Optics", by Hecht, 4th edition, Page 52:
"Photons are stable, chargeless, massless elementary
particles that *exist only at the speed of light*."
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Follow up.

If the energy is lost over time (Not including the effect of acceleration)
by lengthening of the wavelength and by definition lowering the frequency I
would have thought this would be one the easiest theories to test. And as
far as I know there is no observations of radio signals changing frequency
due to distance by even the slightest degree.

I was thinking about this over lunch. Thanks Cecil!


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Peter VK6YSF

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