Re: particles without mass!

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:27:08 -0800

stefjnoskynov wrote:
>
> Studing something about special relativity and some other things about
> stastical mechanics I encuntered some special particles: photons!
> They are special because they constitute electromagnetic waves and
> moreover because they have no mass!

Bull*** detector quivers. Any virtual particle mediating an infinite
range force must be massless.

[snip]

> Now I have to study Bose-Einstein and Fermy-Dirac systems and I ask
> myself: "is it all I need to know about photons?" We had just spoken
> about an exstrem particular object, a championship runner that moreover
> HAVE NO MASS!!! It becames only from a function apparently indefined!
> And how does it come from by a charged body like an electron?

Emission during acceleration. SOP.

> I know
> from special relativity that mass is only a particular type of energy
> and I know that an electron orbiting around a nucleus (like other
> charged bodies) emit a photon, so energy but not mass! So mass and
> radiation are two absolutely opposite expression of energy.

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the
foolish their lack of understanding.

> All this is beatifull, but I can't understand how I can speak about an
> object that run at velocity c and HAVE NO MASS, phereaps it is an
> assumption used to describe wave function, phereaps I haven't to search
> WHY this assumption but I have to start BY this assumption to study
> electromagnetic waves in a new way.
> I would like to have some comments from physicist around the world :).
> Thanks for your attemption and sorry for my english (am I always
> understandable?)

Do the math. Intepretation will tak care of itself. 

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