Re: [Phys-L] foundations of physics: Galilean relativity, including KE

[Moses Fayngold <moshfarlan@yahoo.com>]

On Friday, October 2, 2015 11:52 AM, Bob Sciamanda <treborsci@verizon.net> wrote:


  
> Beware the sin of reifying the abstractions of our mathematical and 
> conceptual models.  :-)
Yes, just applying known physical formalism to a problem does not always bring the right solution without delving into real physics of the problem.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@www.phys-l.org] On Behalf Of John Denker

> > > On 10/01/2015 02:43 PM, Jeffrey Schnick wrote:
> > > Are you saying that if I have one box B containing the two photons in
> > > your example and I subdivide B into two parts which I call box G and H
> > > such that one of the photons is in G and the other is in H, then, at
> > > any one instant in time, there is no mass in box G and there
> > > is no mass in box H but there is mass 2q in box B?      [1]
> >
> > Yes.

> Where within B is the mass?
A good question!

Moses Fayngold,NJIT
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