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timer You are having a tough "time" with this, like learning how to ride a bike for the first "time", a little wobbly. Maybe the next term will begin to clarify it for you : t=dKE=m where m means mass, either inertial or gravitational mass. I'm not the first person to make this simple observation : time is mass, or mass-time. As to Einstein, his term "rest mass" is an oxymoron. "rest" means a momentum state, mass means a change of state. Newton's first : an object will continue moving in a straight line(momentum, locally, internally), until an external force is impressed on it(mass-time change of state). Thus "rest mass", taken literally means momentum-mass, direct opposites. Heisenberg's "delta momentum" term, to define the quantum area, h=dMxdPv, is also an oxymoron. "delta" means a rate of change of something as in dKE, but M(Momentum)means no change of state. Thus "delta momentum" taken literally means : variable rate of change of no change of state. dM actually began in 1827 with Simon DeLaPlace : energy is velocity times momentum; then Planck(1900) : the quantum is an area defined by q x p where q means dM and p means dPv(delta Particle velocity). Thus Heisenberg was just parroting what DeLaPlace and Planck had previously said. His idea for a german/nazi atomic bomb was to fly the whole nuclear pile in a plane and drop it, pulling all the control rods at once...interesting story... So, if you can make it this far : t=dKE=m you'll be ready for the next quantum leap in understanding....