Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Sunlionspirit
A massless object cannot have kinetic energy, as a mass is required to get kinetic energy in the first place.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Sunlionspirit
A massless object cannot have kinetic energy, as a mass is required to get kinetic energy in the first place.
Photons are massless particles according to modern science and they can carry plenty of kinetic energy. Neutrinos are ALMOST massless and they can also carry any amount of kinetic energy.
Originally posted by ArbitrageurExactly...the complexity of the machine...and what they are trying to do is mind boggling...I heard a physicist give this example: "Trying to make two protons collide into each other is like trying to shoot two pins from each side of the Antarctic ocean, and aim them so well the tip of the pins hit each other"...go have a look at a video of this machine...the worlds largest scientific instrument...and you will have no doubt it will have complications...and I can't really think of a reason why they would hide such a finding from the scientific community anyway...
Regarding the LHC breakdowns, I watched a video made during the construction of that huge and complicated machine. After watching that and seeing how complex the machine actually is, it's not hard to imagine that getting so many components to work to such high tolerances is a challenge. I mean repairing the LHC isn't like repairing a bicycle right? There is a lot more that CAN go wrong with the LHC, and, apparently, it does!
A new limit on photon mass, less than 10-51 grams or 7 x 10-19 electron volts, has been established by an experiment in which light is aimed at a sensitive torsion balance; if light had mass, the rotating balance would suffer an additional tiny torque. This represents a 20-fold improvement over previous limits on photon mass.
Photon mass is expected to be zero by most physicists, but this is an assumption which must be checked experimentally. A nonzero mass would make trouble for special relativity, Maxwell's equations, and for Coulomb's inverse-square law for electrical attraction.
The work was carried out by Jun Luo and his colleagues at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China *contact details removed by CHA0S, visit link*. They have also carried out a measurement of the universal gravitational constant G (Luo et al., Physical Review D, 15 February 1999) and are currently measuring the force of gravity at the sub-millimeter range (a departure from Newton's inverse-square law might suggest the existence of extra spatial dimensions) and are studying the Casimir force, a quantum effect in which nearby parallel plates are drawn together. (Luo et al., Physical Review Letters, 28 February 2003)
when a particle has very strong electromagnetic
force ( photons, other particles X-ray etc .. ) the less mass they have, the more mass the less E.M. force ???? a rockstone : much mass, less E.M.
force ..... I do NOT know, I just dream about all those things and then notice it during my sleep .... and think about it afterwards .... 