Timeline for How does time relate to mass and velocity
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| Nov 7, 2013 at 5:19 | comment | added | anna v | @Warren you might like to read through this: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/mass.html . | |
| Oct 30, 2013 at 14:00 | comment | added | Warren | So just to be clear, the effect that gravity has on time is related to an objects 'resting mass' not the relative mass an object gains as it approaches the speed of light? And this is why when we consider time dilation due to velocity we use SR instead of GR. | |
| Oct 29, 2013 at 13:53 | comment | added | Warren | Thank you for your answer and your patience. As you can probably tell I only study physics as a hobby, not professionally. | |
| Oct 29, 2013 at 4:18 | comment | added | Quitting this forum | I'd say special relativity is in play here. I'd think in terms of an accelerator, you pump energy into it , the entire power supply of a small city, and particles are accelerated to 99.99 % of the speed of light so collisions occur at high energy. They have become heavier, say 10-100GeV. Energy is equivalent to mass according to e = mc^2 . But again the particles experience time dilation , particles that would ordinarily decay to Muons in a laboratory remain Pions in the particle beam for a longer time . (I know you want to bring in GR to explain the mass increase). | |
| Oct 29, 2013 at 3:18 | comment | added | Warren | Thank you for the article. It describes the difference between general and special theory well. I was more specifically wondering if general theory comes in to play as an object approaches the speed of light. As I understand it ( and I could easily be wrong) as an object the speed of light it gains in mass. Is it possible that this gain in mass is responsible for time slowing down for the object? Or is special relativity the only thing at play in this situation? Sorry that I was not more clear on my first post. | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 22:00 | history | answered | Quitting this forum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |