At 6:17 PM -0700 12/10/00, Jim Green, you wrote about Re:
Mass/Energy Conservation:
Oops! Mass IS energy -- They are the same thing!
careful here. Beware of reification ! ! ! ! !
Just because TIME magazine sez it's the 'Equation of the Century', do
we REALLY want our young impressionable students to suspect that this
'E' has as much 'reality' as the m in E = mc^2
(smile) and just WHAT does the = sign mean anyway?!?!?!? ;-)
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