How to Use massless in a Sentence

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• In the bending of light problem, the sun was modeled identically, but the light was modeled as a massless point traveling at the speed of light (a photon).
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2020
• Such flavor changing shows that neutrinos cannot be massless.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2017
• They're known for traveling at near lightspeeds and being nearly massless, but a new study has shown the masslessness of the most massless neutrino.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2019
• The universe is awash with these fleeting, almost massless particles, but IceCube is after a rare subset.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 31 Mar. 2021
• A few months ago, Chalmers published new research about massless structural batteries to power electric cars.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2021
• Scientists have made a massless structural battery 10 times better than before.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2021
• The spin spectrum stops at 2 because the infinities in the four-particle interaction equation kill off all massless particles that have higher spin values.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019
• The spectacular explosion created a hot, compact, and opaque particle soup that trapped even massless photons.
  — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 8 Oct. 2019
• Models at the time predicted that certain fundamental particles would be massless, but the mechanism that the three physicists proposed explained how these particles could have mass.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 19 July 2016
• According to the theory worked out by Dr. Pauli and Enrico Fermi, neutrinos were virtually massless ghost riders of the sky, traveling at the speed of light and rarely interacting with other matter.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• Regular airplanes as well as vertical take off and landing vehicles could turn electric by using massless batteries.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2021
• Neutrinos are nearly massless subatomic particles that have no electric charge and therefore interact rarely with their surroundings.
  — Mike Wall, NBC News, 12 July 2018
• Difficulty #2: despite our theoretical hopes, gravitons (and photons, and gluons) are all probably massless.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021

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