Cecil Moore wrote:
John Smith I wrote:
Really? I am going to have to see that one to believe it (not saying
it is incorrect though), a "something" with no mass--kinda like a
"ghost particle!"

It's old hat knowledge, John, and one of the reasons
why standing wave energy doesn't just stand there or
just "slosh around" as one guru asserted. If a photon
is slowed to zero velocity, its mass vanishes and
it ceases to be detectable. A photon's mass derives
from its speed-of-light velocity, i.e. it is 100%
kinetic. Any particle with a resting mass would necessarily
have infinite mass at the speed of light. Therefore, any
particle with a finite mass at the speed of light must
necessarily have a zero rest mass.

Cecil:

I know that is argued, and I suspect it all hogwash.

If "they" have to create theories depending on disappearing particles,
when you get one where you can take a look at one of them dern
"particles", that is just TOO desperate.

However, it does, in my personal opinion, suggest a STRONG relationship
of the "particles" to the ether--the ether cannot be seen nor detected
either ... (that is, IF it really exists, as I suspect it does ... )

JS
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