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Chris Wagner wrote:
> 
> Chris Muffett wrote:
> >     I would be very interested in learning more about these "certain QED
> > equations", as I have never come across them until now. There is a
> > relationship that deduces the photon as the only zero rest mass quanta,
> > but this only applies to bosons. The neutrino, as you know, is a lepton,
> > and is not bound by this QED relationship.
> 
> I don't care enough to actually dig up references but consider this:
> All particles follow the dual particle/wave nature, right?  Photons,
> electrons, protons, bosons, leptons, baryons, etc.
> 
> Agree with me so far?
> 
> If you let the mass go to zero, you get a description of the photon.
> Now if ALL particles are described by this equation, how can you get
> two different particles out of one equation with the same mass (zero)???

    Yes, I agree that all particles obey wave/particle duality, but I
don't see how this leads to the conclusion that all zero rest mass
particles are photons. The rest mass of a particle is only one of it's
properties. Take for example the particles intrinsic spin. A photon has
a spin of 1, whereas a neutrino has a spin of 1/2.

    You refer to an equation, but I'm not sure what equation you mean?
Schrodinger's Wave Equation perhaps? The fact is that the photon and the
neutrino interact with other particles in completely different fashions
(photons using the EM force, neutrinos using the weak force) so I can't
see why a particle of zero rest mass must NECESSARILY be a photon.

    I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Perhaps I missed something while
I was sleeping through those Nuclear Physics lectures :)


	Regards,
	 Chris.