Light And ‘The Illusion Of Knowledge’
Often, the familiar hides the deepest mysteries. This is certainly the case with light, one of the take-it-for-granted physical phenomena that surrounds us in everyday life. We wake up to it, we turn it on and off, rarely thinking of what it really is. A good thing, for even the greatest physicists pause before talking about the nature of light.
“we also have no clue why the speed of light has the value that it does” Lightspeed is constrained by the permeability and permittivity of free space, hence the Scharnhorst effect,
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw43.html
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0107091
Massless boson photons verify vacuum models to 14 significant figures. Given photon-derived theory, fermionic matter is furies of parity violations curve fit with hierarchies of symmetry breakings. The vacuum is askew for matter. ECSK gravitation allows Equivalence Principle violation by single crystal test masses in enantiomorphic space groups: P3(1)21 versus P3(2)21 alpha-quartz or P3(1) versus P3(2) gamma-glycine. Physics denies spacetime geometry interacts with atomic mass distribution geometry, for crystallography is chemistry. “The greatest obstacle to understanding reality is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” Reality is not a peer vote. Somebody should look.