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- From: dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE)
- Subject: Re: Defining Photons
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:56:00 GMT
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- sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
- >>Notice that masslessness have nothing to do with these questions. It a matter
- >>of spin, not mass. Massive bosons, such as the W or Z, if we were able
- >>to make enough of them to produce a semiclassical state, would behave much
- >>like photons, not at all like electrons.
-
- jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes...
- >And it also follows that large numbers of neutrinos would act more like
- >electrons than photons, despite the fact that they are massless.
-
- Hmmm... I disagree with you both :-)
-
- I think anything with a charge will appear as a particle in the classical
- limit, whether boson or fermion. Like a W in a cloud chamber. And anything
- which interacts as weakly as a neutrino would behave like a wave.
-
- Anyway, I wonder if our non-scientist friend knows that electrons are really
- massless, and that they only _look_ massive because of thier interaction
- with the higgs.
-
- Dave Ring
- dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu
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