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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: energy, mass, and all that
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.722225568@husc8>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:12:48 GMT
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- sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
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- >I am more convinced than I was before that this argument is more than a
- >matter of different definitions of mass. No matter which definition you
- >adhere to, you can't get the right physics by assuming that matter and
- >energy are not interconvertible in the way that Bondi seems to suggest.
-
- It looks to me like Bondi is just overreacting badly to the notion of
- relativistic mass. By saying that mass and energy are not interconvertible
- he just means that the mass of an object is not equal to the energy times
- c^2. He overstates the point, though, since there's nothing wrong with
- treating the mass as part of the energy.
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- Matt McIrvin
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