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Old 10-January-2008, 04:01 AM
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I remember reading somewhere before, that speed does NOT really increase the mass of a moving body. Momentum and kinetic energy, yes, but NOT the mass. And that the whole concept of "relativistic mass" is just confusing and not really needed.
I happened to find a couple links that say just this:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...lack_fast.html
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...y/SR/mass.html

Are these just plain old BS then?
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