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OK Dave, I'll bite: What's wrong with rainbows!
Hi all and David Bowman-
Hmmm, I dunno, David. Suppose that the photon did have a small
mass while still being the lightest particle in nature. What would special
relativity look like then? What kind of argument would lead us to the
Lorentz transformation? We would, of course, discover the constant "c"
by balancing energy-momentum and mass differences for unstable nuclei.
Also, the consequences for cosmology, with all of that mass hanging around,You are right here about cosmology. All that extra mass would change the
would be profound. But your insistence on a particular postulate as
"fundamental" intrigues me. So let's change one of the facts and see
what happens.