(February 8, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Heywood Wrote:Reread that statement. It has nothing to do with observing them all. It has to do with the properties defined for a single photon and anything that has those same properties is a photon. If it does not have those properties, it is not a photon. All photons travel at the speed of light, by definition. That is one of the properties of a photon and if it does not travel at the speed of light, it is not a photon. It does not matter how many we observe. All the ones that we have not observed do travel at the speed of light or it is not a photon. Redundant enough for you?(February 8, 2015 at 4:00 pm)IATIA Wrote: All photons propagate at the speed of light which is a constant throughout the universe. Any 'photon' that does not propagate at the speed of light is not a photon.
I agree...even though I can't observe them all. Why? Because the more I observe photons and find that they all travel at the same speed, the more likely it becomes that all of them, including the ones I can't observe, travel at the same speed.
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