Timeline for Gravitational Field of a Photon compared to that of Massive Matter
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 20:25 | comment | added | user95137 | Thanks, sorry for asking a crappy question, I'll take information from the person who told me both of the conditions with a pinch of salt next time. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 15:28 | comment | added | user4552 | How is it that [as I've heard, perhaps incorrectly] photons can contribute to the stress-energy tensor and thus interact gravitationally purely through their relativistic energy E=pc and their associated relativistic mass You're right, this is incorrect. They also contribute through their pressure. So basically this question is of the form "Why is it true that A and B," where both A (as pointed out by Prahar) and B (this) are false. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 12:12 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 7:01 | comment | added | Prahar | You seem to be suggesting that a moving massive particle has the same stress-energy tensor (or "effect on the gravitational field") as a massive particle at rest. Where have you heard this? | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 6:30 | answer | added | safesphere | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 22:59 | history | asked | user95137 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |