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To: RoughDobermann
Photons cannot have mass. Energy, depending on wavelength, but no mass. By Einstein's relativity, if they had mass to begin with, the mass would become infinite when they move at their own chosen natural speed and their gravity would be infinite and they would suck up the whole universe. The universe is not being sucked up by photons, so they must have zero mass. One or the other.
64 posted on 06/20/2003 10:48:28 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: RightWhale
So why is light affected by gravity?
65 posted on 06/20/2003 10:51:53 AM PDT by RoughDobermann
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