From: eric@flesch.org (Eric Flesch) Subject: Re: Light deflected by gravity Date: 1998/06/20 Message-ID: <358b2e5b.19559969@news.nn.iconz.co.nz>#1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6lnp85$988$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6looa4$9d5$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <35824453.10485543@news.nn.iconz.co.nz> <6luo38$drq$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <35836cc3.36313877@news.uni-stuttgart.de> <358938BA.DB42A0CA@dlcwest.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Internet Company of New Zealand Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 01:28:45 GMT, meron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote: >In article <358af0a2.3756845@news.nn.iconz.co.nz>, eric@flesch.org (Eric Flesch) writes: >> If neutrinos are found to have >>mass, then it is clear that mass too can travel via the conduit of C. > >No, then it means that neutrinos don't travel at c, that's all. Looks like a swing and a miss to me, Mati. If neutrinos travel at sub-light speed, then they are *accelerated* to that speed at the source. Such an accelerating process should yield neutrinos of many different speeds, i.e. energies, the distribution of which presumably follows the normal curve. Is such an energy distribution observed or postulated? Also, what process accelerates them? I think it rather more likely that they travel via C, rather than some relativistic process. Eric Flesch