The Infinite Mage - Vol. 1 Ch. 63

[MangaDex]

 

[Varpie]

"I'm no longer breaking the rules" he says, while breaking the rules of physics

 

[SoEu]

"I'm no longer breaking the rules" he says, while breaking the rules of physics

I guess what he did was become something akin of a higgs boson, granting mass to massless things. We know it's possible to create energy from mass, so here what he did was create mass from energy

Still weird though

 

[SoEu]

Well actually, I just researched, and while not having a true mass, a high energy photon can act like having mass, "If by mass you mean the inertial mass (the m in the momentum-velocity relation p=mv) a photon can gain some by falling in a gravitational field"

So while not possible for a photon to have mass, the author probably got this information to do this beam attack

 

[popinloopy]

Thank you for the translation!

 

[WereMuppet]

Well actually, I just researched, and while not having a true mass, a high energy photon can act like having mass, "If by mass you mean the inertial mass (the m in the momentum-velocity relation p=mv) a photon can gain some by falling in a gravitational field"

So while not possible for a photon to have mass, the author probably got this information to do this beam attack

I can't remember the exact details exactly but as I sort of remember it it's that while a photon doesn't technically have any measurable mass, a consentrated "beam" of photons can exert force (just like an object of mass) upon mass, which would indicate (like the dual slit experiment shows photons behaving both like a wave and a mass, but afaik it's not scientifically proven) that photons might have mass but in such a miniscule number that it's practically as close to zero you can get without actually reaching zero.

 

[SoEu]

I can't remember the exact details exactly but as I sort of remember it it's that while a photon doesn't technically have any measurable mass, a consentrated "beam" of photons can exert force (just like an object of mass) upon mass, which would indicate (like the dual slit experiment shows photons behaving both like a wave and a mass, but afaik it's not scientifically proven) that photons might have mass but in such a miniscule number that it's practically as close to zero you can get without actually reaching zero.

Yeah, and I learned it's used in rocket fabrication to open a very thin plastic like material, that any other type of force would tear a hole

 

[vernt]

I can't remember the exact details exactly but as I sort of remember it it's that while a photon doesn't technically have any measurable mass, a consentrated "beam" of photons can exert force (just like an object of mass) upon mass, which would indicate (like the dual slit experiment shows photons behaving both like a wave and a mass, but afaik it's not scientifically proven) that photons might have mass but in such a miniscule number that it's practically as close to zero you can get without actually reaching zero.

Sometimes people talk about the relativistic mass, which is confusing since it really isn't mass
Anyway, photos have momentum, the ability to exert force by slamming into objects.
Don't try to hard to merge real world physics with what's going on here, this series is fantasy and the rules of physics bend to the whims of the author.

 

[Mepharias]

The definition of mass changes subtly when considering relativity. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that it expands. The classical way of thinking about it is that mass is the quantity of matter in an object. It determines inertia. Relativity says that mass (inertia) is more akin to the magnitude of the curvature of spacetime attributed to an object. Energy also curves and is subject to the curvature of spacetime. This is why gravity can cause a lensing effect on light travelling from distant galaxies. When viewed from this perspective, photons are a kind of pseudo mass. That'd besides the point, because I'm pretty sure that Shirone just gained the ability to manipulate the Higgs field.