(September 1, 2026 at 5:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm not trying to deceive you. I'm trying to educate you.
Ok thanks for the physics lesson.
(September 1, 2026 at 5:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The Sun emits light in the form of photons. The mass of a photon is zero. Therefore, photons - being massless - are an immaterial force than can push a distant object (look up 'LightSale2').Probably no point in further debating this issue. Your claim violates a metatphysical axiom that I acquired during my PHL 101 class many years back. No version of physics, not even Einstein's, will raise doubts in my mind about it. My axiom is that an intangible substance cannot physically impact a tangible one. For 2,000 years probably all Christian theologians, with the exception of Tertullian, idiotically postulate an immaterial human mind/soul controlling the material human body. Today Millard J. Erickson is a rare and welcome exception, but he is half-hearted about it, attempting to stand on both sides of the fence.
For me the axiom produces a tautology. Meaning, photons are tangible by definition since they make a physical impact on the earth.
Furthermore, Einstein's physics is prolific with gibberish claims such as curved space, time dilation, relativity of simultaneity, massless particles, and special relativity (all being violations of my personal axioms). Maybe a better physics will arise within the next 200 years?


