No such animal as Proton Rest Mass

A ten thousand light year spherical shadow suggests a heat sink. If we want to marry a faster than light space to a sub light space, then I think it has to have viscoelastic properties i.e. a negative refractive index part and a positive refractive index part.

A 1c graviton should only occur when the particle is normal to the space of matter. An extremely rare event but possible.Give it a refractive index of one, and I believe is should have some unusual peoperties.

Thinking a bit more about the optical properties of a light speed graviton. I think that this thing can do total internal reflection. It can balance its kinetic and potential energy in such a way that its internal energy is equal to zero. It oscillates betwenn having a positive and negative refractive index.

In short it would wave.

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[][8D][] A wild theory. God went to an English Public School; it's a well known fact that he's English and looks like James Robertson Justice, or Wilfred Hyde White, depending on his whim. He decided to model the universe on public school custard. As he sat opposite the boy Isaac Newton in the refectory, he decided to not give obvious clues, so he dyed the custard black. [] Public school custard is a viscoelastic but it's harder than steel. Yet people can walk about in it, just so long as they don't try to run, run and it becomes a wall[]

Oh yeah, this idea came about from a thread on the subject of 300 l.y. long rods. just for devilment [}] I suggested a viscoelastic rod.

The aniversary of 9/11 had got me thinking about the properties of non newtonian materials, and perhaps it's of relevance to the exploding planet idea.

The buildings had been twanged like a guitar string. So there's a standing wave established. This will be damped, through time, by the viscoelastic dampers on each floor truss, twelve thousand of them. The fire was never hot enough to weaken steel by much more than a few percentage points. But, the dampers are tied into the node/antinode system of the standing wave. As the fires die down, the steel regains its strength and redistributes its load. Dampers change their operating characteristics from a viscous mode to a solid mode. They are now under tremendous sheer forces. They explode and rotate the verticals.

I've said that a light speed graviton can only go at light speed, so how does it differ from a photon? Well, I think it duplicates its mass energy equivalent and inverts it. Now I know from another thread, that Tom Van Flandern dislikes this idea but I get a spin of two, for a light speed graviton in a viscoelastic universe.

A bit more thought on this one. A light speed graviton can invert its energy, this doesn't involve negative mass but is due to a phase inversion. Now, if a light speed, r.i. of 1, graviton leaves from some space of matter, it will look as though it carries zero energy but once free from the matter space of its birth, there wil be a slight shift in its phase. A graviton has a power factor. I think that energy will be dumped as heat.

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I think I have to modify this. The slight phase shift energy might be the energy the graviton uses to to travvel at the uncontracted speed of light. Intriguing thought that it might be able to climb to faster than c.

Something I think I'd better add here. if I throw an electron say, into an accelerating field, its internal energy tends to zero. Its mass doesn't increase to infinity, nor is there any time dilation. To get an electon to the speed of light is akin to to pouring an ocean through a bucket, with no bottom to it, then declaring that the bucket has the mass of the ocean.

The light speed graviton, has more internal energy than its much faster cousin.