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NightFlyingTurtle t1_jeetxzq wrote

Well, sound is litterally a result of mass moving (vibrating) and hitting your ear drums so... I'm not sure that your technically correct

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OKishGuy t1_jeexm49 wrote

No, just no.

Whether or not photons have mass, is still debatable and not 100% verified.

And sound waves consist of stuff that have mass. Otherwise there wouldn't be a wave in the first place. Particles move around in a wave-like pattern --> Sound. That's why in a particle void atmosphere, there wouldn't be sound as well (in space for example)

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iamnogoodatthis t1_jef4od4 wrote

I agree with you on the sound front, but whether photons have mass is not debatable.

Also it's a dumb statement, that's not what we mean by seeing and hearing something.

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Barnagain t1_jef4qsy wrote

I can hear the racket from the church over the road from me every Sunday morning and I'm pretty bloody sure it's Mass!

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iamnogoodatthis t1_jef0egm wrote

No you cannot. That tells you the energy content of a massive object, not that a photon has some mass thanks to its energy. The full relation is E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4.

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