Hi Zeroca, you and Einstein are both correct. Lorentz had already done the close to light transformation calculations before Einstein's ideas became popular. Einstein also knew all of Lorentz's work because he published much of it in, I believe, his g.r. material. If you carefully check their work, you'll find that mass increases as it approaches the speed of light is true, but thermodynamics takes over at the entropy stage very near light speed and mass sprays massive radiation decay to end at zero or very near zero, at the speed of light. All mass transitions are absolute thermodynamic motions, very similar to boiling water's entropy into steam. Not so complex, when looked at this way, just very fast entropy motions.
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Originally Posted by zeroca  Does he? And do you strongly believe in it? Hello Fortean! Welcome to the forum. I think as any object gets closer to the speed of light, its mass strives to zero, because it (object) turns into light, so no object can have the speed of light and have mass at the same time… If you don’t mind, you can consult two my posts (#2 and #5, mainly the latter) of the thread “mass” and give your brief opinion about this matter again... Thanks, zeroca. |