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To: kosciusko51

Theorized to have no rest mass.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/photon_mass.html


52 posted on 09/22/2011 1:01:05 PM PDT by filospinato
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To: filospinato

From the same link, they have experimentally shown that if it has any rest mass, it is very, very small. Right now, there is only a upper bound on the rest mass, which includes no rest mass. When someone puts an lower limit on the mass, then you can say it has mass.


67 posted on 09/22/2011 1:11:53 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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