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Author(s) -
Antonio Puccini
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
progress in electromagnetics research b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1937-6472
DOI - 10.2528/pierb08050706
Subject(s) - computer science
—According to Einstein's Principle of Equivalence Mass-Energy (E = mc 2) the mass of a single photon (P) corresponds to 10 −48 g/s and moving the P weighs 10 −27 g/s, that is more than an electron. A light beam weighs 10 −12 g/s, that is 1000 billiard times more than a proton.
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