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- noun Absence of
mass ; the state or condition of beingmassless .
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Examples
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Parallel plants exhibit "masslessness," seem frozen in time, lack internal structure, and generally collapse to dust at a human touch.
parallel botany jlundberg 2008
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The dark photon comes from a gauge symmetry, just like the ordinary photon, and its masslessness is therefore completely natural.
Dark Photons Sean 2008
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Coulomb's law seems to be valid at the longest distances so it must be set up by the photons close to masslessness.
Forces 2001
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When two charges are far away the uncertainty relation gives little freedom and the photon is closer to masslessness, We know that
Forces 2001
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If we put the energy and the tree-dimensional momentum together into the four-momentum we see that it is not constrained by the masslessness condition, we say that the photon is virtual and consequently has a (virtual) mass.
Forces 2001
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Although the masslessness is ultimately destroyed by the Majorana mass terms (or by ordinary
The Reference Frame 2010
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