Re: [Phys-l] Teaching Special Relativity

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

This mass energy equivalency idea is so clearly evoked here that one 
immediately recalls the magnetic and electric field equivalency as 
viewed through the prism of relative velocity.

Brian W

Moses Fayngold wrote:
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> "carmelo@pacific.net.sg" <carmelo@pacific.net.sg> (Alphonsus) wrote onSunday, July 5, 2009 10:03:43 AM:
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> ">>You may want to include Frank Wilczek's insight (See Below). That is,  
> mass of proton’s mass comes from the relavististic masses of the  
> quarks and gluons. :-)
>
>                       Frank Wilczek's Happy 100th Birthday, Special Relativity"
>
>
>   Yes, and one can also find this discussion in Wilczek's pieces "Mass without mass I, II" 
> in Physics Today(Nov. 1999 and Jan 2000)
> In the closing remarks of the second one he writes:
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>   "Most of the mass of ordinary matter, for sure, is the pure energy of moving quarks and gluons."
>
> (Phys. Today, Jan 2000, p. 14)
>
> Moses Fayngold,
> NJIT
>