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Aaronvan
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On pp. 459 of Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes writes:
He is talking about soft-x-rays in that quote. I understand that X-rays are massless so their weight is zero regardless of the density of the flux. Is this not correct? Is there a better comparison he could have used to describe the density of the X-ray flux?
...atomic bomb produces an enormous flux of radiant energy; if a cube of that massless flux could somehow be cut out and weighed it would reveal itself to be nearly as heavy as an equivalent cube of air.
He is talking about soft-x-rays in that quote. I understand that X-rays are massless so their weight is zero regardless of the density of the flux. Is this not correct? Is there a better comparison he could have used to describe the density of the X-ray flux?