The most fundamental equation that forms the basis of Einstein’s special theory of relativity was actually derived by Hendrik Lorentz in 1892 to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment that was carried out a few years earlier. The Michelson-Morley experiment had to do with the invariant nature of the speed of light. This is a wonderful story that I will come back to at a later date.
Einstein’s use of the Lorentz equation led him to this conclusion:
Let v be the velocity of any particle and c the velocity of light. If the particle is traveling at the speed of light, then the lower part of the equation becomes zero and the flight mass is infinite. This is a no no, which caused Einstein to conclude that a photon traveling at the speed of light has no mass.
Now we see why physicists who believe in the special theory of relativity are so concerned over the reported findings that neutrinos with known mass travel faster than the speed of light. And now you can better appreciate why I have presented numerous experiments and lines of evidence that show photons have mass while in flight.
We know that photons arriving here from the Sun come from preexisting mass; however, there are other sources of photons. We will begin this discussion in my next blog. Till then be safe and in good health. Kelland—www.vestheory.com
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