In Chapter 10 we found that an infinite amount of energy is required to accelerate a massive particle to the speed of light. What does this imply about the mass of a photon?

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must be pretty light :)
....like vanished
maybe we should have called it a wave?
The trick is stopping it to weigh it.
In fact it has ZERO rest mass but does have momentum and energy at speed. Therefore you can assign mass from E = m c^2 for example.
Google "momentum of photon"