Re: MASS OF THE PHOTON

It is important to understand that even if the photon had a tiny mass
this would not affect special relativity theory. See:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special_Relativity:_Spacetime#The_spacetime_interpretation_of_special_relativity

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