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Old 10-31-13, 12:47 AM   #3
Red October1984
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Originally Posted by Raptor1 View Post
A photon is a massless particle, it is in fact made out of energy. Per Einstein's mass-energy equivalence it would probably be more accurate to say that "all things are made of energy" anyway, but that probably has a much better definition somewhere.
That's what I figured. I'll have to do some more reading.

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Gamma radiation is basically electromagnetic radiation (light) of a certain (very high) frequency range. So that is not terribly surprising.

Also, I'm not really sure this has much to do with quantum mechanics...
It doesn't...but I thought of it halfway through the post and thought i'd ask.
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