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To: GWTexan

"I've always believed neutrinos and even photons have some level of mass, if planck levels.. Probably means that even they don't truly travel at the speed of 'light', but just under the absolute."

Ok... and if photons have mass and don't travel at the speed of light, and a lightwave is comprised of photons, then light doesn't travel at the speed of light? :)


10 posted on 07/09/2004 12:31:32 PM PDT by brownsfan (Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life.)
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To: brownsfan

Re: Your tag line.

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in the boat all day drinking beer.


12 posted on 07/09/2004 12:36:55 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: brownsfan
"I've always believed neutrinos and even photons have some level of mass, if planck levels..

Pirated neutrino's must walk the planck! Harrr!

46 posted on 07/09/2004 2:16:27 PM PDT by talleyman (E =mc2 (before taxes))
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To: brownsfan
if photons have mass and don't travel at the speed of light

By fudging industry standard definitions (in the Phys Biz) light does have mass if you mean that mass is something that moves something else that it slams into.  In fact, if you twist the polarization of a wave train, your twister will even recoil in the opposite direction.

But standard definitions require that we use the term "rest mass"-- that light only acts like it has mass when it's moving at light speed, and that if a neutrino has a finite 'rest mass' then it can never attain light speed because then its mass would have to be infinite.

53 posted on 07/09/2004 2:25:16 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: brownsfan

I believe the original ftl neutrino results were correct but that they didn’t want anyone to know this for some reason that has to do with playing with time. Thus a time-out was established.

Scientist that observed those test said that everything had be double checked.


93 posted on 04/13/2014 3:24:48 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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