I suck at physics, but get familiar with the concept of mass-energy. And photons aren't really massive. You can't crash two photons together.
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I suck at physics, but get familiar with the concept of mass-energy. And photons aren't really massive. You can't crash two photons together.
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Or maybe you can, and the effect is so minute that you don't notice.Originally Posted by BoundByHonor
errrm, i read this
true?have zero mass and rest energy
but suction can pull anything in if great enough.
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I don't know about that, but when photons collide, which has been evidenced to happen, there is no real way to explain it other than with virtual particles. I need to brush up on this before my finals. Shit.
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^ ^ good luck.
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Thank you. If physics wasn't so damn abstract, maybe I could stand a chance.
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Am I the only one that giggled after reading the thread title?
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Light photons have energy and duly has mass
E=mc^2 (mass times speed of light squared)
And despite traveling at 300000000 meters per second, the gravitational pull is so strong that it cannot pass by the black hole before falling too deep into it's gravity well.
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