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|    Stefan Ram to Stefan Ram    |
|    Re: energy and mass    |
|    21 Feb 26 15:24:21    |
      From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de              ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:       >Photons lack a valid reference frame since Lorentz transformations       >are undefined at v = c.               However, some fields use "light-cone coordinates", introduced        by Paul Dirac and also known as "Dirac coordinates", where        the associated coordinate axes are the world-lines of beams        of light emitted from the origin along the x1 axis.               So, when x0 is the usual time coordinate and x1 the spatial        coordinate (for simplification, I assume just one spatial        dimension "x1"),              x+ :=( 1/sqrt(2) )( x0 + x1 ) and       x- :=( 1/sqrt(2) )( x0 - x1 ).              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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