Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by purpled_haze on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:26PM (#11084914)

Protons are said to be massless, but a proton may have mass that is so small that we cannot measure it easily. We can't currently say with 100% certainty that it is massless- only that it is at most very, very small: < 1×10−18 eV/c2

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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by Jweb_Guru on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:10PM (#11085048)

What? Protons most definitely have mass.

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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by dwaxe on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:50PM (#11085171)

They obviously meant photons

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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by purpled_haze on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:45PM (#11148294)

Yes, fingers kept typing wrong word.

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Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein R... by deciplex on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:09AM (#11085444)

First, I'll assume you meant 'photon'. With that in mind, is it your assertion that if photons have no mass, they necessarily possess no energy?

Because if so, and assuming you have some reason for believing this i.e. you can prove it, I would urge you to forward these findings to a physics journal of your choice posthaste, as this basically represents a total refutation of much of physics of the last century or so. You will easily win a Nobel Prize.

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