Photons must have mass because....
Posted: 12/3/2002 11:54:41 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Photons must have mass because light can be asorbed or bent around the gravitational field of a black hole...   i remember reading somewhere that astronomers had observer a binary star much further away than they should have been possibly able to. and this had been due to a blackhole deep in space acting as a giant lense - bending the light from a much more distant object and refocusing it.

and another reason - a mirror can be pushed by a beam of light hitting it - this was demonstrated by a fan inside of a vacuum sealed glass tube - when a light beam was directed against the blades it will start to turn.  forget the name of this instrument.

Interesting stuff though.

Clint
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Photons must have mass because....
Posted: 12/3/2002 11:54:41 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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As you said, to a photon, time doesn't exist. One second, you're at a star, the next you're at someone's eye. Maybe God is made of photons! That's how he can be everywhere at once and can know all about the future!
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