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To: editor-surveyor
All physical function requires friction. It is irreplaceable in the physical universe.

How does a light photon travel billions of miles without losing energy through friction?

122 posted on 02/23/2009 8:59:33 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater

A photon is not matter, and is absorbed if it encounters matter. It can continue to propagate only as long as it contacts nothing.


133 posted on 02/23/2009 9:24:44 AM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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