Originally Posted By: paul

that satisfies my opposition.


So now I will challenge you to the problem that QM solves in this situation.

So a zero mass particle has zero energy so light must have zero energy by that defininition?????

Yet we know from standing in the sun and seeing things get hot that light must have energy.

See the problem here we have a contradiction ... so lets see how your physics solves it.

Explain the contradiction.

BTW your link does the usual explaination we give to students it LIES to them to avoid talking about QM I love the line

"Light is in fact composed of “photons”—particles having zero “rest mass”, as we shall discuss later. The “rest mass” of a photon is meaningless, since they’re never at rest—the energy of a photon"

I particually like the we shall discuss it later, somehow travelling at the speed of light is special, I had a few teachers like that :-)

Last edited by Orac; 12/14/12 03:30 AM.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.