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To: freedom9
I don't think there is such an entity as a massless particle.

Then you need to come up with the equations to replace Einstein and Maxwell's equations. Because those equations declare, unequivocably, that in order for anything, including light, to travel at the speed of light, it must have no mass. Period. End of story. So you've got well over 80 years worth of physics that you need to rewrite in order to make your belief anything approaching a scientific theory. Let's see the numbers (and letters) that make up the predictive side of this light=force hypothesis of yours. How can we test it? What experiments would falsify your idea? Without that, you've got a religion, not a science. Physics is inseperably joined with mathematics, to the point that we can mathematically describe things that we cannot conceptualize or visualize (see four-dimensional space and Quantum Mechanics, for example). So if you can't write it in an equation, then it isn't a physics theory...

Oh, and as for the squared symbol. I used ASCII code. Look up "ASCII Code" on a search engine, and you can find a list of the numerical equavalents of different symbols in HTML. Then you just type in an ampersand, pound, the number, and end with a semi-colon. For example, the squared sign is number 0178. So you type in "²" (without the quotation marks) and you get "²". You can see if it works or not in the preview window before you post.

195 posted on 03/29/2003 7:19:31 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Physicists do it with force and energy!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
This quote is from an article on Bohrs wave theory

"Photons don't have mass, but they do have energy--and as Einstein famously proved, mass and energy are really the same thing."

197 posted on 03/29/2003 7:37:55 PM PST by freedom9
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