Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00109)

Pedro,

Very good point. Perhaps photon's have no rest mass. We'll need
clarification.

Thanks,
Gene


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro" <zanotta@unb.br>
To: <theos-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: No-Thing


> Well, I'm really an outsider (in physics and Theosophy) but I think they
> said that photons had no restless mass, I mean, photons couldn't be with
> null velocity with respect to any referencial (sorry for my english..)-
> just ever the speed of light. That means, at this velocity it has a
> mass(?).
> Peace and Light,
> Pedro
>
> Eugene Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sherab Dorje" <sherab@wenet.net>
> > To: <theos-talk@egroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:03 AM
> > Subject: Theos-World Re: No-Thing
> >
> > > Gene,
> > >
> > > Thanks for all of your contributions through which mind is so
> > > stimulated. Here is my question back to you.
> > >
> > > > A particle of light has no mass whatsoever. There is no time for
> > > it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > But apparently it does, as the astronomers have measured and recorded
> > > the bending of star light as photons pass the vicinity of large
> > > massive objects such as a star. And also we must ask how could light,
> > > if there is no mass, being drawn inescapably into a black hole?
> >
> > Sherab,
> >
> > My understanding is that the photon has no mass and that it is the
spacetime
> > that the photon "travels within" that is curved by the mass of a star.
> > Perhaps light can't get out of a black hole as the escape velocity would
> > have to be greater than the speed of light and that can't happen. Good
> > questions. I'm not the one who can answer with any firmness but this is
my
> > understanding so far.
> >
> > Thankyou very much,
> > Gene
> > >
> >
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