2007-06-10 01:40:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Light is composed of photons, so we could ask if the photon has mass. The answer is then definitely "no": the photon is a massless particle. According to theory it has energy and momentum but no mass, and this is confirmed by experiment to within strict limits.
2007-06-10 01:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to antediluvian myth, light is a spiritual event, much like prayer. The photon (for lack of a better word) exits the eye of the beholder, finds it's way to the viewed object, and then mystically ascends to the sun. You can check it out in Genesis, daylight was created several days before the sun, and that's cool, because who needs a sun, when it's already daytime. Many ancients preferred moonshine, because it was so dark, and the moon was good company as it didn't hurt the eye, which was mystical.
2007-06-10 09:04:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that depends on how you interpret it. The short answer is no.
But since it is energy, it could be made into mass. In fact that has been done: http://www.hep.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/e144/nytimes.html
But it has no mass when it is light.
Edit: There is a lot of bad info above me so here are a couple of sources:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/light_mass.html
http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.id=58&cat=exotic
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=162
2007-06-10 09:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Definitely not. Light is not catholic, and so has no mass. Remember, Lucifer, the 'bringer of light', is satan, the bad guy.
2007-06-10 09:07:06 · answer #4 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it can spin a white and black paddle wheel in a vacumn. So it has mass
2007-06-10 08:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by Peter C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course not. Light is not matter. It is energy.
2007-06-10 09:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by Hardrock 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hobob,
According to Einstein's Theory, it certainly does. Have a wonderful day.
Thanks,
Eds
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2007-06-10 08:47:39 · answer #7 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, light is energy same as heat
2007-06-10 08:47:03 · answer #8 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you are in R&S, so for relevance, churches have mass..
2007-06-10 08:48:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep.
all energy has mass and all mass has energy..
e=mc2 works both ways..
2007-06-10 08:44:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋