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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Defining Photons
- Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Jul26144007@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 21:40:07 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu's message of 26 Jul 92 19:28:19 GMT
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- snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
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- > If you are a college professor , the taxpayers or students pay
- > you to enlighten and clarify issues pertaining to your specialty.
- > Why then have you not yet found a word other than ``particle'' to
- > describe that which has no mass , to differentiate it from that
- > which does?.
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- If that's all you want, then a new word is easy. I'd suggest the old
- "wavicle" - although that's been used for massive waves as well as
- massless particles. If that won't do, how's about a "gravinon" ;-)
- I think that has just the right mixture of obfuscation and
- pseudo-classicism!
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- * Steinn Sigurdsson Lick Observatory *
- * steinly@helios.ucsc.edu "standard disclaimer" *
- * The laws of gravity are very,very strict *
- * And you're just bending them for your own benefit - B.B. 1988*
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