Solution

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With signature , the four-momenta are
In the rest frame of a future timelike , one has and , so ; Lorentz invariance proves the assertion in every frame.
The impossibility of photon decay into two massive particles follows because a photon has squared four-momentum zero. If it decayed into an electron and positron, conservation would give
a contradiction.

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