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If light has no mass, why is it affected by gravity?
Interestingly light or photons do not (according to theory) have “rest mass” ie no mass at rest. But when it is moving (photons are never at rest) they do have mass given by
E = mc2 = hν
⇒ m = E/c2 = ...
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