| The stopping Light quanta. -
03-28-2007, 12:34 PM
Quantum Theory says mass increases with speed increase and becomes infinite when a mass reaches speed of light:c=1. Which is against the “Law of conservation and transformation energy/mass”. But we know the quantum of light is real particle and its mass is particular and not infinite. How to understand this contradiction? And the scientists invented an artful way: the quantum does not possess the mass of rest and it is always in motion. ============== The quantum of light has not mass of rest equal to zero. But……. ============= The Soviet/Russian academic S. Vavilov suggested an interesting idea. In his book ' Isaac Newton' he wrote. The force, according to the Newton’s Second Law, is equal to : F= ma. This force is possible to consider as absolute independent quantity - impulse. When in case with light quanta the impulse is equal to: mc. He continued. Let us now imagine that light quanta falls on a black body, and it absolutely absorbs this light quanta ( it means light quanta stops). Then, according to the Lebedev,s law, light quanta renders pressure on the black body: E/c. Therefore it is possible to write: mc=E/c. It means that according to Classic physics the stopping light quanta has not mass of rest equal to zero, but it has potential energy/mass: M=E/c^2. (E=Mc^2). ========================= Of course the potential energy/mass of light quanta can transform in its kinetic energy. =============== |