This is incorrect by well over a century. The error is likely a conflation of information transmission with mass in context of relativity.
Thomas Young’s 1801 double slit experiment demonstrated the wave particle duality of light. The modern scientific explanations aren’t found in relativity, instead quantum mechanics.
The title is just crap. Don’t try to defend it, especially not like this.
I remember that episode. Kirk didn’t follow protocol and got caught with his pants down. Before he knew what was going on the Romulans had knocked out warp drive and impulse. Scotty used the deflector dish to make a kilt of energy to catch solar radiation, moving the ship into a gaseous anomaly and then out of the neutral zone.
Spock then convinced Scotty to pretend it was dumb luck. Despite the obvious and large magnitude advantages of kilts, everyone was better off if Kirk kept his pants on.
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.