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What form of nuclear radiation gives off either particles emery that have no mass and no charge?
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∙ 12y ago
X-Ray and Gamma are photons. Photons have no mass and no charge. Well, sort of...
Photons have no mass at rest state. Problem is, they don't sit at rest state. They move at the speed of light. At that speed there is an infinite mass multiplication effect from the Lorentz transformation, 1 / (1 - (1 - v2/c2)-1/2). Take a particle with no mass and multiply that mass by infinity and you get - well, officially, its indeterminate - unless you start talking about limits - then you get some mass.
Bottom line - there is no particle with no mass, unless you happen to also be moving at the speed of light relative to the particle, and that would require infinite energy.
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