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Old 09-May-2008, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by alainprice View Post
That wiki quote is vague. Photons or other particles? That's everything! Why state photons when we are talking about all particles?

Inversely proportional to the square of velocity? This is not the end all answer.
It says "photons or other particles moving at relativistic speeds"

this means that it works for particles and photons. It works for anything moving at close to or at the speed of light.

Dividing an effect by 9*10^16 tends to make it a very small effect.