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Re: Mass/Energy Conservation

At 9:40 PM -0500 12/10/00, David Bowman, you wrote about Re:
Mass/Energy Conservation:


(Note that the definition of 'mass' use here is the normal modern usage
of the term as by practicing physicists as the invariant timelike
magnitude of the object's energy-momentum 4-vector (1-form), and, most
definitely, does *not* mean the so-called 'relativistic mass'.)


So the modern version of the 'Equation of the Century' should be written as

E = (gamma) m c^2 ??



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