Timeline for Where does the extra matter come from to a relativistic particle?
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| Sep 17, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | user108787 | @garyp. Because they still teach it that way, in my neck of the woods anyway. Also, TV documentaries love the drama aspect of it. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 12:22 | comment | added | garyp | The amount of matter does not increase. The resistance to having it's state of motion change increases. One way of looking at it is to say that the particle's mass increases, but that point of view leads to problems in interpretation, as you have discovered. Physicists abandoned that point of view at least half a century ago. Einstein warned against it. For unknown reasons, the idea that mass increases persists. In the current interpretation, mass is constant. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 12:10 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | Closely related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/133376/50583 | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 12:08 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2016 at 12:07 | answer | added | Christoph | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 12:02 | comment | added | user108787 | No, that is not the way to look at it any more.....profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/… is a very good article. Well worth a read. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 11:59 | history | asked | Suhrid Mulay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |