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VOLUME 14 (1971) | ISSUE 12 | PAGE 611
Do Weber's Experiments Reveal the Photon Rest Mass?
Weber's experiments [1 2] aimed at observing gravitational'waves of frequency ω/2π = 1бб0 Hz, which give pulsed flux values on the order of 1000 W/m Hz [335 lead to significant difficulties in astrophysics, since the mechanisms that yield such a colossal radiation are unknown and the mass lost to radiation is too high [4]. In the present article we wish to call attention to the fact that an interpretation of Weber's experiment, where quartz converters of mechanical shear into electric voltage were used, are not unambiguous. It is possible to register in such an experiment longitudinal electromagnetic waves which exist if the rest mass of the photon differs from zero [5 10].