Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"

David Bos (davidb@luna.nl)
25 Apr 1995 00:03:45 GMT

carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) wrote:
>In article <3neubb$hhl@aladdin.rotterdam.luna.net>, David Bos
<davidb@luna.nl> writes:
>=I have read something similar: about photons loosing energy on the way.
>=I suppose that would depend on photons having mass or not.How is the current

>=insight on that?
>
>The "tired light" hypothesis, so beloved of creationists, hasn't been in use
>by anybody except them since the 1950s or thereabouts.

well, the popularity of this hypothosis amongst creationists is in itself
not a reason to discard it. i am not a creationist btw.

But what about photons? Do they have mass or not?