English

The massive side of the electromagnetic waves

Classical Physics 2023-09-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Stationary electromagnetic waves display aspects that are shared with massive particles, since the energy and momentum contained in a volume of sides equal to the wavelengths form a non-zero energy-momentum invariant. The parallel can be extended to the notion of weight when this concept makes sense, that is, in the Newtonian chart of a weak inertial-gravitational field.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.12860,
  title  = {The massive side of the electromagnetic waves},
  author = {Rafael Ferraro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12860},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:03:34.433Z