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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Limit to the frequency of light?
Message-ID: <495@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 14:00:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.495
Posted: Fri Jun  7 14:00:12 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 07:28:42 EDT
References: <19900003@hpfcla.UUCP> <674@charm.UUCP> <11228@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <11228@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>A photon swallowed by its self-gravity??  What have you been smoking?

	Actually, he is probably *right*, common sense is totally
useless in quantum physics, at that level the truth is often very
wierd from a human point of view.
	In fact the gravitational interactions of light, as predicted
by quantum theory, have been well validated in the form of light being
bent by massive obercts(such as the Sun, or a galaxy). The extension
of this to the limiting case could well produce the effect specified.
Remember, mass and "energy" are *equivalent*, thus the energy content
of a photon is *also* a sort of mass.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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