Timothy Murphy wrote:
Norman Wells wrote:

The trouble is, you've taken a theory that explains away certain
phenomena that occur in really extreme circumstances only, for
example at velocities close to that of light, or in nuclear
reactions, and have fallen into the trap of believing that it
therefore applies under all conditions as a general principle.
Well, I'm sorry, but it doesn't. Matter is not converted into
energy, nor vice versa, _at all_ except at the extremes. All energy
changes outside of those extremes occur through exchange of one form
of energy for another, kinetic energy into heat for example. They
involve no change of mass whatsoever, not even infinitessimally.

Forget about relativity.
Do you apply your philosophy to gravitational attraction?
Is there no gravitational attraction between small objects,
"not even infinitessimally"?

Yes, there is, but so what?