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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Does light have mass?
« on: 03/05/2020 14:00:26 »
A photon has no rest mass, and so it actually doesn’t rest, but nevertheless has a momentum that is frequency dependent.
The photon momentum was discovered experimentally by Arthur Compton, for this work he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
The photon momentum was discovered experimentally by Arthur Compton, for this work he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.