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- Subject: Re: Converting the masses
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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:25:34 GMT
- References: <n0596t@ofa123.fidonet.org> <mcirvin.711489157@husc10> <130889@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1992Jul22.195007.18309@sfu.ca>
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- palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:
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- >In article <130889@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> dk@imager (Dave Knapp) writes:
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- > By the way, I've never
- >been asked by a physics student why a sufficiently fast-moving rocket
- >ship (or other particle) doesn't "behave like a black hole gravita-
- >tionally". It does behave like a gravitating mass having the relativistic
- >mass, of course.
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- It doesn't act at *all* like a gravitating mass at rest whose rest
- mass equals the total energy of the rocket, either in its response
- to or its production of gravitational fields.
-
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- Matt McIrvin mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu Long live short .sigs
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