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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Massive Photons Tomorrow (was Scientists Plan...)
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- In article <Bx8y2F.3wD@brunel.ac.uk> mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter) writes:
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- >Someone told me once that a massive photon might not be fatal if the mass
- >was low enough. The range of the electromagnetic interaction would shrink
- >from infinity to a length of the order of a metre or so, with no practical
- >consequences (?), and there would be a lower frequency limit to the EM spec-
- >trum. Atoms, nervous systems and Usenet would be unharmed; we would simply
- >wake up one morning without TV.
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- Hmm, *every* morning I wake up I'm without TV, so that wouldn't bother
- me. Would there be sunshine, though?
-