Impossibility of photon decay into two massive particles
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Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The sum of two future-pointing timelike four-momenta is timelike. It therefore cannot equal a photon's null four-momentum, which forbids spontaneous photon decay into a massive particle pair in vacuum.
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