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According to Einstein's Principle of Equivalence Mass- Energy (E = mc²) the mass of a single photon (P) corresponds to 10^-48 g/s and moving the P weighs 10^-27 g/s, that is more than an electron. A light beam weighs 10^-12 g/s, that is 1000 billiard times more than a proton.

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