Re: Einstein's GR passes extreme test
- From: "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:40:28 -0500
"Don Klipstein" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Although GR predicts that gravity would affect the trajectory of any
massless particles moving at finite velocity, photons have mass. Although
photons do not have rest mass, they do have finite velocity and
nonzero momentum.
So how much mass does a proton have at 1 TeV kinetic energy? Hint: the
correct answer is 938 MeV/c^2. Mass is always RME, and photons have none of
it. They are able to posess momentum because they move at the speed of
light; any mass would immediately restrict their velocity considerably. And
we all know c is c whether 60Hz or 600THz.
Tim
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