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Old May 10th 07, 09:06 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Jon Kåre Hellan Jon Kåre Hellan is offline
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Default Electron ratio to form a radiation field
Richard Clark writes:

On Thu, 10 May 2007 00:18:25 -0500, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

"----Unlike protons and neutrons, photons have zero rest mass. (Albert
Einstein`s special relativity theory predicted that massless particles
travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.)

It should be added that "particles" accelerated to the speed of light
(radiation) have infinite mass requiring infinite energy to get them
there.

Particles with non zero rest mass, that is.
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