Re: Relativistic mass

[THOMAS SANDIN <sandint@NCAT.EDU>]

I referenced Okun's article in mine. You may find it interesting to first
read Carl Adler's "Does mass Really Depend on Velocity, Dad" in the
American Journal of Physics, 55, 739-743 (1987) and then read Okun's. If
you were a referee, would you have recommended the acceptance of Okun's
article?
In my message to this list, one sentence should have read, "Isn't this one
of the great unifications of modern physics?" and it was only the two
referees appointed by the editor who were strongly anti relativistic mass.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, David Bowman wrote:

> Regarding Tom Sandin's suggesting reading:
>
> >        Let me stop "lurking" long enough to suggest that those interested
> > read my article, "In Defense of Relativistic Mass" in the November 1991
> > issue of the American Journal of Physics, pages 1032-36.

> And I would suggest Lev Okun's article in _Physics_Today_, 42,
> #6 June, 1989, p. 31 for the usual reasoning behind the modern
> no-relativistic-mass viewpoint.