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Posted by Mark on October 11, 2001 17:12:34 UTC

three degrees of freedom, for gravitons and photons? In other words... why just three? If the number of degrees of freedom is the origin of what we perceive as "dimensions", then what causes a photon to only have three degrees and hence the inverse square law...?

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