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ThomasFuhlery
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hi there,
This may seem like a stupid question, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding out anything just from reading.
Ok, so photons are described as behaving both like waves and particles. They have no mass, like other forms of electromagnetic radiation, otherwise they could not travel at C, right? Ok. SO, if nothing WITH mass can be accelerated to the speed of light, because it would take infinite energy and become infinitely massive, can something WITHOUT mass exist as a non-moving wave/particle, and then be accelerated to C? In other words, Is radiation something that is created from something (since it is not massive this would not violate thermodynamics, right?) or is it there to begin with and then accelerated, or what?
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
This may seem like a stupid question, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding out anything just from reading.
Ok, so photons are described as behaving both like waves and particles. They have no mass, like other forms of electromagnetic radiation, otherwise they could not travel at C, right? Ok. SO, if nothing WITH mass can be accelerated to the speed of light, because it would take infinite energy and become infinitely massive, can something WITHOUT mass exist as a non-moving wave/particle, and then be accelerated to C? In other words, Is radiation something that is created from something (since it is not massive this would not violate thermodynamics, right?) or is it there to begin with and then accelerated, or what?
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks