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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: TimberwoofTimberwoof Date: Sep 1, 2008 15:11
In article comcast.com>,
"Spaceman" wrote:
> Starman wrote:
>> I think it has been proven that mass tends to infinity WHEN it
>> reaches speed of light, and to move infinity mass
>> you need infinty energy, then try to do the math, so as long as you
>> have mass you can't reach speed of light
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> Actually, nothing like the sort has been "proven" and in fact
> mass does not change at any speed at all.
Actually it has, by people smarter than you working at particle
accelerator labs all around the world.
> Only the energy or kinetic energy changes.
> Mass itself is a non variable.
> The Energy and Kinetic Energy does rise when the speed of
> the mass increases, but there is no actual infinites unvolved
> unless you use an infinite in the speed or infinite in the energy parts
> of the equations.
> So very simply,
> With finite speeds and finite energies, you never get any
> infinite mass needed nor occuring.
> The m in the equations never changes if it is already known,
> and if the m is not known it still never reaches infinity unless
> you are using infinites in the equations.
You've just made it clear you don't understand the Lorentz
transformations. That's not a good basis for rejecting them.
Someone who remembers freshman calculus would say "As a massive particle
approaches the speed of light, its mass increases without bound." The
whole point is that because the mass increases without bound, the amount
of energy required to accelerate it to the speed of light also increases
without bound. Thus it will never achieve the speed of light ... and it
will never achieve "infinite mass".
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