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Re: What Hath Einstein Writ?



Ludwik Kowalski muttered under his breath:

And what will happen to the commonly used concept of
"binding energy" when the concept of the "rest mass" is
eliminated?

Nobody is advocating eliminating "rest mass" per se. Only that the
modifier "rest" is superfluous, so it can just be called "mass,"
which is, of course, related to the energy by E=(gamma)mc^2. The
concept of binding energy is safe.

Hugh


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