The road not considered ... the question of photon mass
Abstract
We consider possibilities of modification of Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics that could have automatically led to a massive photon. Why weren't such questions considered at the time when quantum theory was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century? We try to answer this question.
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