OK. I'm no physicist, but the formula and the physical evidence somehow don't add up.
Most sources indicate that the photon is "massless" (M=0). A table in Zukov's "Dancing Wu Li Masters", compiled by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, adds graviton, electron neutrino and muon nutrino to the list of M=O particles. Well, if in these cases M=0, applying the simple math of the E=MC2 formula, E (not C?) would ALSO equal 0 for these particles. However, for the photon, at least, clearly there IS some energy involved.
So ... is there any conventional explanation for this apparent contradiction ?
Any professional physicists out there with a ready answer?
2006-08-28
14:26:53
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