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Originally Posted by AntonioLao 2 years ago I was prescribed Ziac to reduce blood cholesterol. But after I lose 35 lbs, my blood pressure becomes too low, I'm off Ziac. Now my diet consists of low fat meat, low carb and salad or as much seafood as I can afford and also bottled water.
Millikan, the famous experimentalist, did his monumental oil-drop experiment to measure the unit electric charge by assuming that the force of gravity is zero such that 
in the symmetrical frame of the laboratory, this vector equation became just a scalar equation.
This scalar equation should apply to a photon, since a photon is not affected by gravity because its rest mass at low energy-low speed-weak gravity domain is practically zero. Inside a black hole (very strong gravity field), photon acquired mass due to its energy content as required by the mass-energy equivalence and Einstein field equations of general relativity. |
well done!! the 35 lbs i mean. i found out after weeks of summer and eating a packet of icypoles (don't know what you guys call them-sugary frozen ices??)
per day that my BSL (blood sugar level) was 26!! it should be <6. so i've been on a diabetic diet. i've got the BSL down to about 6-8 so it's going in the right direction; gotta play lots of golf which i love, so that's fine, and the pooches get a few more walks.
i think what you're saying about the photon is the basis of the early attempts to see what the mass of the photon was, or should i say to obtain an upper limit on it. I have a good reference to it all in J.D. Jackson's latest edition of his wonderful book "Classical electrodynamics", 3rd Ed., 2000. this gives the cut-off point as to where classical and quantum theories apply. it's done with a pendulum though so the physics is essentially different to milliken's famous charge experiment.
i don't think we can do the same with the photon, 'cos we don't even know how to 'split' the photon (yet). but what we CAN do is use self-field theory and use the obtained spectroscopy and match these frequencies to various phenomena and the quantitative observations therein, and hence find out the structure of the photon including what the elementary charges on the subphotonic 'particles' should be.