How is it possible that photons can move without mass, wouldn’t they have to carry some sort of inertia in order to travel?

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How is it possible that photons can move without mass, wouldn’t they have to carry some sort of inertia in order to travel?

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I should point out that travel does not require mass. A stadium wave, for example, can travel and it does not by definition require any mass.

OTOH, photons do actually have momentum, even without mass

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