sci.physics.particle

On Feb 23, 5:42 pm, Tom Roberts wrote in
:
> Jeff$B"%(BRelf wrote:
> > So ( to recap ) you don't know if Einstein explicitly said
> > something like: " Photons have no rest mass. ".
> > I can't believe he was silent on this matter.
>
> Look into his writing on GR. I'm pretty sure he said that light follows
> a null geodesic -- that is, for instance, implicit in his computation of
> the deflection of light by the sun. It directly follows from Maxwell's
> equations and basic GR. Any object that follows a null geodesic
> inherently has no mass.
>
> Worrying about what this or that eminent scientist said is of little
> use, ESPECIALLY when said scientist died well before the modern
> vocabulary we use today was established.
>
> Tom Roberts

But Roberts Roberts modern vocabulary is much more idiotic than
Einstein's (after 100 years of intellectual selection in Einstein
criminal cult):

/group/.relativity/browse_frm/thread/1cb971595bf0fe4?

/group/.relativity/browse_frm/thread/c3aed28b53a1edd8?

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