Rules Only: Book 5 clarification needed.

[mike wightman]

Thank you for the subscript lesson.

You are still using the wrong equations

E=pc for massless particles, E=mc² only for particles at rest (due to observer and object being in the same reference frame).
What is really going on is:

E²=m²c⁴ + p²c²

A negative mass plugged into this formula will always give positive energy. Where it gets interesting is with imaginary mass, plug that in and you get negative energy (possibly, it depends on the momentum p)

 

[aramis]

A negative mass plugged into this formula will always give positive energy. Where it gets interesting is with imaginary mass, plug that in and you get negative energy (possibly, it depends on the momentum p)

Negative mass is what the physicists are expecting.
I've yet to hear one with credentials talk about imaginary mass.

The thing is, physics equations are the approximation of reality; the actual reality need not oblige itself to match.

One of the fun things in the 70's was the claims that antimatter was impossible in nature... until bananas were found to generate positrons. Thanks to Potassium 40.

 

[mike wightman]

Talk to them about the Higgs field and you will find imaginary mass is discussed...

 

[bookwyrm]

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Beaker was always given the hard work with no recognition of his efforts, and he never gave up on the research that needed to be done, even when it was obviously dangerous. One of my all time favorite characters.

 

[aramis]

Talk to them about the Higgs field and you will find imaginary mass is discussed...

Raises issues: What is the anti-higgs going to do?