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Article #4024Re: Massive Photons Tomorrow (was Scientists Plan...)
From: John C. Baez
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:19
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:19
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In article <Bx8y2F.3wD@brunel.ac.uk> mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter) writes: >Someone told me once that a massive photon might not be fatal if the mass >was low enough. The range of the electromagnetic interaction would shrink >from infinity to a length of the order of a metre or so, with no practical >consequences (?), and there would be a lower frequency limit to the EM spec- >trum. Atoms, nervous systems and Usenet would be unharmed; we would simply >wake up one morning without TV. Hmm, *every* morning I wake up I'm without TV, so that wouldn't bother me. Would there be sunshine, though?
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Massive Photons Tomorrow (was Scientists Plan...) Message-ID: <1992Nov5.221946.4516@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <Nov.4.13.31.48.1992.25862@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <4NOV199214241699@csa1.lbl.gov> <Bx8y2F.3wD@brunel.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:19:46 GMT Lines: 11