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To: reed13k
Light has mass and momentum - a photon is basically an electron moving at light speed.
This should be in breaking news. Way I learned it in the Dark Ages, light had zero rest mass but a nonzero momentum because of its energy, basically. An electron had a small but nonzero rest mass.

18 posted on 07/26/2018 2:44:11 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

light doesn’t rest and momentum requires mass as part of the equation.

p = m • v

momentum = mass x velocity


22 posted on 07/26/2018 3:51:13 PM PDT by reed13k
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