Quote:
Originally Posted by leonie-macaroni
But you would be massless anyway, and nobody likes massless friends.
Photons and gluons pass me by constantly and I mostly just ignore them.
I suppose they could be friends with each other, but as stated earlier that theoretically travelling at C will cause no time for the traveller to pass at all, I would guess that they haven't met yet.
 |
Actually, if you were a photon, gluon or graviton, you would be massless, but not for the reason you're thinking of. The velocity of the particle (in this case bosons, or force carrying particles) does not dictate the mass of the particle. That has to do with the way particles couple with the Higgs Field, and since these bosons don't couple to this field, they're massless...no matter (pardon the pun) what velocity they're doing. The only bosons that have any mass at all are the W and Z particles, which intermediate the weak nuclear force responsible for radioactive decay. They cannot travel at "c".