Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Massless particles? Message-ID: <4950@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 00:33:01 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4950 Posted: Tue Aug 13 00:33:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:21:26 EDT Distribution: net.sf-lovers Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 > From: Peter Alfke> Photons (and anything else which travels at lightspeed) are massless. Photons are not massless! They have energy, and thus they have mass, because mass and energy are the same thing. There's no such thing as a massless particle because anything that carries information, carries energy. "Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)