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kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 1 年前

NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space

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NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space

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kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 1 年前
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Spacecraft data has confirmed successful deployment of the futuristic technology.
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    Do they even exist if they don’t move?

    No. Or, at least not from our point of view.

    They only exist moving at the speed at light. All particles with no rest mass only exist moving at the speed of light.

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      So photons do have mass?

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        only as long as they exist

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          Else they don’t. We are talking quantum here.

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