Understanding Photons - High School Physics

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Question

Why is it that photons can move at the speed of light, but other particles cannot?

Answer

Photons can move at the speed of light because they have no mass. Anything with mass can not be accelerated to the speed of light—it takes an infinite amount of energy to do so. We can get very close, but never exactly there.

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