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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:40 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <1992Nov09.192052.25358@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <9NOV199213395569@csa1.lbl.gov> <1992Nov12.201646.31516@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <Nov.16.14.05.56.1992.18657@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Nov.16.14.05.56.1992.18657@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes...
- >
- >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.
-
- No, I think it's more than that. I can't remember the details (which
- is why I tried to find the reference that the original poster quoted),
- but we've been through this Bondi thing sometime in the past. It may even
- have been the same poster. The bottom line, if I remember correctly, was
- that Bondi didn't know his arse from his elbow, and had a complete
- misunderstanding of SR, and mass-energy equivalence in particular. There
- are no peer-reviewed papers on his work so far as I can tell. I think
- that he is the European equivalent of these guys who "publish" abstracts in
- the APS bulletins and then reference themselves from year to year. He has
- found himself an advocate, a la McElwaine and Larson, in this guy, who,
- so far as I can tell, understands neither conventional physics nor
- even what Bondi has to say about it. You will notice that he has
- so far refused to do more than tell us all to look it up. He is incapable
- of explaining it himself.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-