# proposed explanation for the phenomena of mass

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 23, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-explanation-for-the-phenomena-of-mass/744005 "2016-01-23T19:23:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-explanation-for-the-phenomena-of-mass/744005/41 "2016-01-30T01:58:50Z")

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> [@Zach29](#):
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> Actually you have it reversed; when a photon moves from a higher place to a lower place in a gravitational field it **gains** energy. And similarly when it moves from a lower place to a higher place it **loses** energy. This is why electromagnetic radiation emanating from an object in close proximity to a black hole would become so red-shifted to an outside observer.

You reversed what I actually said. I said, “to a higher place from a lower place.” You just said, “from a higher place to a lower place.”

We’re actually both right, and both saying the same thing; you just flubbed in quoting me.

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