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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: What are the conditions for Mass <-> Energy conversion
- Message-ID: <103245@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:48:34 GMT
- References: <8091@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: bhides@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Sandhiprakas J Bhide)
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- In article <8091@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, bhides@tekig1 (Sandhiprakas J Bhide) writes:
- >Now, if it is indeed true, why is that sunrays or for that matter
- >any other energy such as heat does not by itself convert into mass?
-
- Because there is no conversion. A hot iron weighs more than a cold
- iron, other things being equal. There is both more energy, and more
- mass.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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