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- From: ucap22w@ucl.ac.uk (Martin S T Watts)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144029.29898@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:40:29 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> <Nov.16.14.05.56.1992.18657@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Exactly. Congratulations!
-
- I don't believe that Scott Chase realises this, however, if he thinks that
- mass is lost in particle-antiparticle annihilation.
-
- >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)
-
- Hey, hold on a minute. MY problems? It isn't me who's got problems. I just
- had the misfortune to reference an article which Scott Chase had trouble
- finding. I hardly think that necessitates your having a go at the British
- University system. It's not *their* fault that they have difficulty in
- getting funding.
-
- Martin Watts.
-