Switch off at the socket?
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Norman Wells wrote:
Because relativity says its so. ANY release of energy is accompanied
by a loss of mass.
Its vanishingly small for typical mechanical and chemical energy,
but its there just the same.
If it isn't, relativity is falsified, and there is a huge hue and
cry out for an alternative.
Then you have completely misuderstood relativity. Energy and mass
are interconvertible but only under specific circumstances you will
not find on earth outside nuclear reactions. If release of energy
is accompanied by a reduction in mass then what you've got is
nuclear fission. If you haven't got nuclear fission then you don't
get reduction of mass.
Oh dear me no.
You do. Its just almost unmeasurable, due to the fact that C squared
is a frigging big number.
Outside of nuclear reactions, all you have is energy conservation and
mass conservation, and they are entirely separate. One form of
energy can be converted into another, but not into mass, and mass
can never be converted into energy.
Oh yes it can, it is and it does, BUT the changes are virtually
undetectable.
sigh
Education today.
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