Category: Technical!

• The meaning of mass

  Protons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic. –Woody Allen As is often the case, this story began with a misquote. Someone on Twitter quoted the above, but wrote “photons” instead of “protons”. When another person (not me) challenged him on it, he doubled down and said that everything has mass because of…

  Matthew R. Francis

  May 28, 2013

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Technical!

  E = mc^2, quantum physics, relativity