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Article #16215Re: Did Einstein explicitly say: " Photons have no rest mass. " ?
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:53
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:53
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On Feb 23, 5:42 pm, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in sci.physics: > Jeff▲Relf wrote: > > So ( to recap ) you don't know if Einstein explicitly said > > something like: " Photons have no rest mass. ". > > I can't believe he was silent on this matter. > > Look into his writing on GR. I'm pretty sure he said that light follows > a null geodesic -- that is, for instance, implicit in his computation of > the deflection of light by the sun. It directly follows from Maxwell's > equations and basic GR. Any object that follows a null geodesic > inherently has no mass. > > Worrying about what this or that eminent scientist said is of little > use, ESPECIALLY when said scientist died well before the modern > vocabulary we use today was established. > > Tom Roberts But Roberts Roberts modern vocabulary is much more idiotic than Einstein's (after 100 years of intellectual selection in Einstein criminal cult): http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/1cb971595bf0fe4? http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/c3aed28b53a1edd8? Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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