RADIATION BELIEVERS BE LIKE YEAH RADIATION IS UMM PHOTONS AND PHOTONS ARE MASSLESS BUT UM UMM UH BUT IT ALSO HURTS YOU SOMEHOW
i kno this is just a joke post and OP is probably sick of these comments already but the urge to dump science facts is bursting out of me violently like im turning into the hulk so
While TECHNICALLY photons don’t technically have mass due to mathematical bullshit (since they travel at the speed of light, and the speed of light turns all math to goo), they do carry momentum and have an effective mass!! So light actually exerts pressure!! The light from your phone or laptop screen or window or whatever is pushing on you as we speak!!!
In fact, this tiny tiny amount of pressure is actually enough propel a spacecraft if you give it a large enough surface area! These are called SOLAR SAILS and they’re like big space kites powered by photons (and other radioactive particles) (some of which actually do have mass) from the sun!!! Like this one, the IKAROS, which Japan launched in 2010 and was the first spacecraft ever to use a solar sail as its main form of propulsion! Really puts the “SHIP” into spaceship!!
If y’all don’t think that’s the tightest shit ever then get outta my face!!!!