Liquid Light and What Einstein Postulated

[M.D. Holloway]

Einstein's work on viscosity, specific heat of solids, Brownian motion etc. was intended to demonstrate a direct link between the atomic hypothesis and the observed macroscopic properties of matter. The below article is very interesting and has very far reaching effects.

https://www.livescience.com/59445-liquid-light-bends-around-objects.html?utm_source=notification

In recent years, however, research has indicated that light can also behave like a liquid — flowing around objects and reconstituting on the other side. Previously, this phenomenon has only been observed under certain extreme conditions, such as laboratory chambers chilled to near absolute zero.

New research published this week in the journal Nature Physics reveals that light can behave in an even stranger "superliquid" state, in which light particles flow around objects with no friction or viscosity at all. In this state, light exhibits the dramatic effect of "frictionless flow," bending around obstacles with no ripples or swirls whatsoever. Interestingly, this effect can be observed at room temperature and ambient pressure.

The thing that makes it all even more interesting is that this could not be done without math and yet math is not a natural function of the human brain. There are cultures in the world where they have no words for numbers rather using words such as 'some' or 'few' or 'many'. Our numbering systems are base 5, 10 or 20 for the obvious reasons and time is based on base 60 which is rather obscure but understandable given the rotation of the Earth and orbit around the Sun.

Understanding our reality requires numbers. Predicting physical events requires numbers. Without the math we may not have been able to survive or thrive.

[rusnak]

I thought that he used the "bending" of light to prove the fact that space/ time was warped by matter. If light could behave like a liquid, then that would disprove his theory about gravity.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I thought that he used the "bending" of light to prove the fact that space/ time was warped by matter. If light could behave like a liquid, then that would disprove his theory about gravity.

Like Homer Simpson said, "I should have listened to that guy in the wheelchair"

I think the space time bending is a different animal. Just saying not pontificating, cause I don't know.

WRT OP's post, most of those astrophysics videos slip in gently that without knowing the math you really can't get it.

[cstreit]

Theoretically then if light bent around things like a superfluid theyd be completely invisible to us?

[rusnak]

Look up William Wallace Campbell and Arthur Eddington.

I may have been technically incorrect saying that it proved gravity. In reality, it proved Enstein's theory of General Relativity, which had to do with the effect of space time on matter and vice versa. A large mass like the sun warped space time, displacing even electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light.

[M.D. Holloway]

So much of our reality is based on light, or more over what we can see. I watch how my wife manages to get about being blind. Its truly amazing that she can perceive many things without 'seeing' them. Spacial awareness aside, her hearing and other senses are more acute because she is not distracted by images. She can pick up variations in tone and inflection that many of us would ignore because we can see the facial expressions that go along with them. She can pick up on many things that go past the sighted.

I sometimes think photons are the great deceptors of our universe.

[sammyg2]

Life is NOT a hypothetical question.