[Phys-L] Rest mass of light (photons) Was: Re: speed c

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2013, Mar 14, , at 15:33, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu> wrote:

> A bit superfluous perhaps, since I'm mostly channeling Feynman, but here's
> my popular-science take on the issue:


I've kept this in the same thread but new subject, as I think a closely related prob.

The very recent Latina(o) comic strip has the bright sister telling her older brother, Baldo, "Photons have mass, but their rest mass is zero."


http://www.uclick.com/client/smc/ba/2013/03/12/


bc thinks, not quite what he was taught.