From: Uncle Al on
mpc755 wrote:
>
> On Mar 25, 3:42 pm, NoEinstein <noeinst...(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > Photons don't have... "mass", because they don't give off photons.
> > Gamma rays DO give off photons and thus have mass. That is why atomic
> > decay LOWERS the atomic number. � NoEinstein �
>
> My preferred concept of a photon is as a directed/pointed wave in the
> aether which collapses and is detected as a quantum of mather.

idiot

http://arXiv.org/abs/0706.2031
Physics Today 57(7) 40 (2004)
http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p40.shtml
Phys. Rev. D8, pg 3321 (1973)
Phys. Rev. D9 pg 2489 (1974)
<http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/Walsworth/pdf/PT_Romalis0704.pdf>
No aether

<http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-5/index.html>
Phys. Rev. D 81 022003 (2010)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0287
http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1929
No Lorentz violation

idiot

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