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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: energy, mass, and all that
- Message-ID: <98407@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:32:54 GMT
- References: <19NOV199211063691@csa1.lbl.gov>
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- In-reply-to: sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
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- In article <19NOV199211063691@csa1.lbl.gov>, sichase@csa1 (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- >If energy and matter are not interconvertible, where does all the energy
- >of an atomic bomb blast come from?
-
- Simple. The energy that used to be binding is now blast, light, heat.
- While it was binding, the energy was localized enough that we could
- weigh it directly, and so the bomb weighed E-bind/c^2 more than it
- would have otherwise.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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