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- From: emarkp@ocf.berkeley.edu (E. Mark Ping)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Relativity
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 19:52:44 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- References: <9207240533.AA11483@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- In article <9207240533.AA11483@Ra.MsState.Edu> rsf1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Robert S. Fritzius) writes:
- >Cross-posted from alt.sci.physics.new-theories
- >
- >In article <1992Jul22.150401.15820@news.endg.convex.com> Steve Warren
- >writes:
- >
- >>The biggest practical reason that FTL travel is impossible (unless new
- >>discoveries in physics are made - that are not anticipated right now)
- >>is because of the mass increase phenomenum. This has been repeatedly
- >>verified experimentally, . . .
- >
- >In 1908 Swiss physicist Walter Ritz proposed an emission theory of general
- >electrodynamics(1) in which the mass of charged bodies do not increase
- >toward, relativistically, but rather that their masses remain constant and
- >the electrodynamic acceleration forces approach zero.
- >
-
- [explanation deleted to make newsreader happy]
-
- >How do we unambiguously determine whether mass increases relativistically
- >or whether electromagnetic forces decrease relativistically?
- >
- >
-
- Someone correct me if I'm wrong (I'm just a physics *student*) about
- this. When particles get zinging around near c in, say, the Bevatron here
- at Berkeley, not only does it require more energy to accelerate them, but
- when they smash into something (i.e. an antiparticle or something like that)
- the energy released is significantly *more* than can be acounted for by the
- particles rest mass (by a factor of several hundred if I remember
- correctly). I doubt Mr. Ritz accounted for that. After all, his time was
- long before particle accelerators.
- --
- Another student, lost in the sea that is called Bezerekely. His name?
- E. Mark Ping
- emarkp@ocf.Berkeley.EDU
-
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