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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA
- Message-ID: <Nov.16.14.05.56.1992.18657@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:05:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov09.192052.25358@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <9NOV199213395569@csa1.lbl.gov> <1992Nov12.201646.31516@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <13NOV199209344990@csa1.lbl.gov>
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- sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- :>>> ucap22w@ucl.ac.uk (Martin S T Watts) writes...
- :
- :>>(And if you think that, say, positron-electron annihilation is an example of
- :>>the destruction of mass, then think again.)
- :
- :>Sure. What would *you* call it? Where do *you* think the mass goes?
- :
- :>>It wouldn't surprise me if American Universities were turfing out copies of
- :>>J. Phys. A! I only included the reference in case people doubted the
- :>>authenticity of my claim - I hadn't thought people would go to the trouble
- :>>of looking it up.
-
- Etc. Scott, don't you imagine this whole tempest-in-a-teapot is the old
- confusion over "relativistic mass" versus "rest mass"? Bondi probably
- said that mass is conserved, meaning relativistic mass, which is just a
- statement of conservation of energy less a factor of c squared. Rest
- mass isn't conserved.
-
- To the original poster, it's all very easy to blame your problems on
- the nasty, horrible, mediocre American university system. Especially when
- you're writing from Britain, where the universities are all gleaming
- castles-on-a-hill, which are so well funded that they actually lure
- American faculty away!!! (Sorry to be mean, but motes in the eye and
- all that)
-