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Re: Radiation Pressure



Nowadays the convention is
different. "Mass" means what we used to call "rest mass" or "proper
mass". It is by that convention alone that light now is said to
be massless.

Leigh


When is light ever at rest?

Clarence



When it retires. This is why Florida is so sunny.

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