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Old 20-February-2008, 10:04 PM
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Does that mean that mass can not only be converted into energy, but also into spacetime?
Well, mass can be converted into energy, and therefore into motion, which can put you into a different inertial reference frame, which affects the passage of relative time; I don't know if that's the same as "converting into spacetime", but it does have an effect on spacetime.
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