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If the weight of light doubles, and it's speed?

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does it become solid light, argument here is if constituent light forms combine they would become an E/2 form as e=mc/2*itself

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  1. but light doesnt have a weight, its an electromagnetic wave

    if it had weight, it wouldnt travel at "the speed of light" because if it did, it would require infinite energy (according to e = mc^2)


  2. Doubling nothing gives you what again?

  3. Unless you are kidding, you have the equation wrong.

    It's

    e = mc²,

    not

    e = mc/2

    A photon of light has no mass, but it does have energy of the form:

    E = hc/λ

    Where h is Planck's constant, c the speed of light, and λ the wavelength.

  4. you cant use that equation to determine the mass of light. that equation deals only with rest mass, and light is never at rest. light has 0 rest mass, so if you doubled it nothing would happen.

    but light has energy, which is mass. so according to relativity, light has a very small amount of relativistic mass.

  5. Huh?!

    the "m" and "c" in that equation have nothing to do with each other, other than they are involved in a relation relating to energy liberation.

  6. are you talking about tachyons?

  7. light is a form of energy.....its like trying to measure the weight of heat. plus if it did have weight it wont be able to move it at the speed it does becasue that would take infinite amount of energy.

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