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On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:36:14 -0500, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
declaimed the following:

>however miniscule it might be, possibly just the mass of the light 
>energy its carrying.  Can that be quantified to a known value, probably 
>color dependent?

	Color implies frequency/wavelength... Higher frequencies => higher
energies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_energy
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