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MonstersFromTheId
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Do photons "carry momentum"?
I was just reading this article in the NY Times,..
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/s...tml?ex=1175918400&en=d898bf8d246a0844&ei=5070
And THIS sentence just doesn't make ANY sense to me...
"Particles of light, or photons, have no mass, but they carry momentum."
What? P=mv. If m=0, P=0. If something is massless, how in the hell could it possibly carry ANY momentum - at all?
I was just reading this article in the NY Times,..
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/s...tml?ex=1175918400&en=d898bf8d246a0844&ei=5070
And THIS sentence just doesn't make ANY sense to me...
"Particles of light, or photons, have no mass, but they carry momentum."
What? P=mv. If m=0, P=0. If something is massless, how in the hell could it possibly carry ANY momentum - at all?