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mbbolton96
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Lately, I have been giving a lot of thought to whether or not photons would have mass or not. I know most on here an on other sites say that they do not have mass, but I think differently.
If light has no mass, then theoretically, it shouldn't have any speed limit (186,282 mi/sec) because then there would be nothing to slow it down from being infinitely fast. Therefore, light must have matter, to slow it down the 186,282 mi/sec number.
I even calculated what the mass of a photon would be in a gamma ray. My calculation came out to be a mass of 2.2102189e-34 kg for a wavelength of 10^-5 nm.
Could someone please converse with me about this. I'm really loving this. I think I even have a way to test my theories. But, I am only a senior in high school and am not sure if anything like this has been done before.
Thanks :)
If light has no mass, then theoretically, it shouldn't have any speed limit (186,282 mi/sec) because then there would be nothing to slow it down from being infinitely fast. Therefore, light must have matter, to slow it down the 186,282 mi/sec number.
I even calculated what the mass of a photon would be in a gamma ray. My calculation came out to be a mass of 2.2102189e-34 kg for a wavelength of 10^-5 nm.
Could someone please converse with me about this. I'm really loving this. I think I even have a way to test my theories. But, I am only a senior in high school and am not sure if anything like this has been done before.
Thanks :)