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Hey Enthalpy, I wasn't exactly thinking of cosmic rays, honestly it was just a completely random thought/scenario I made in my head If we're looking into the photon motion in that much detail, then what causes the photons of one ray of light to coherently travel together? Einstein said that every observer will measure light to be travelling at the speed c. Perhaps, the photons of a particular ray of light also perceive the other photons of that same ray to be travelling at the speed c (they are not stationary relative to one another). This energy-momentum of each individual photon could be the source of gravity that allows these photons from the same ray of light to 'cluster/group' together; hence they move together in the same path? What I'm saying could be completely wrong as I'm just hypothesizing here, but it's just a thought.

1) Is it something to do with the fact that chlorine is more electronegative than iodine is, therefore the chlorine nucleus would feel some force of attraction for the slightly positive hydrogen atom in the water molecule? 2) One website mentioned that chlorine was soluble because its electrons were susceptible to creating induced dipoles -- but using that logic, wouldn't iodine be more soluble as it has a greater sized electron cloud?! 3) Also, the Cl-Cl bond is supposedly stronger than the I-I bond. Any ideas?

Hey Enthalpy, I wasn't exactly thinking of cosmic rays, honestly it was just a completely random thought/scenario I made in my head If we're looking into the photon motion in that much detail, then what causes the photons of one ray of light to coherently travel together? Einstein said that every observer will measure light to be travelling at the speed c. Perhaps, the photons of a particular ray of light also perceive the other photons of that same ray to be travelling at the speed c (they are not stationary relative to one another). This energy-momentum of each individual photon could be the source of gravity that allows these photons from the same ray of light to 'cluster/group' together; hence they move together in the same path? What I'm saying could be completely wrong as I'm just hypothesizing here, but it's just a thought.

Thanks Enthalpy! The idea of energy creating gravity is quite appealing. Creating a scenario out of this; if there were two gamma rays in a vacuum deep in space, then the gravity created by their energies would cause them to interact with each other, yes? I guess this question really is quite arbitrary and abstract, since as many of you have rightly said, a force is often just an exchange of energy.

Hi guys, I'm relatively new to this topic and website, though a thought just occurred to me. Could anyone offer any views on the idea below? The there are so many forces between matter, and matter (mass) and energy are interchangeable/different manifestations of the same thing. So is there a force of interaction between energy?