Taking this to a new thread.
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Originally Posted by Stu Ward
It is the M part of E=mc2 that makes it all so difficult to accelerate anything but photons to the speed of light. Photons are massless but protons have mass.
The LHC is a particle collider smashing particles with mass at near light speed. If we collide photons then if E=mc2. E=0mc2. E=0.
Stu
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I get E=mc2 in relation to nuclear reactions, but how does this relate to accelerating a particle to C?