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Re: What is mass?

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: What is mass?
Date 2015-09-26 15:37 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <1720206.hs1qVKzY8O@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <pan.2015.09.23.16.59.44@localhost.localdomain> <mtumdt$poa$1@dont-email.me> <pan.2015.09.23.17.33.23@localhost.localdomain> <2280480.8StNvuNZVT@PointedEars.de> <pan.2015.09.26.12.33.36@localhost.localdomain>

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Fabian Russell wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 08:35:23 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> There is only mass.
>> 
>> Two terms for the same thing is not how science works.
> 
> http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2008/SS08/EP_Mich.pdf\u200e

404-compliant, and in 
<http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2008/SS08/EP_Mich.pdf> one can 
read in “Conclusions”:

| […]
| The EP [equivalence principle; the ed.] is one of the most precisely 
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| tested principles in all of physics with many broad implications
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| […]
| No evidence yet for a breakdown of the EP.  For example: 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
|   the weight of gravity agrees with Einstein’s prediction to
|     better than 1 part in 10³
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|   assuming CPT symmetry, anti-H falls with the same
|     acceleration as H to within 2 parts in 10¹⁰
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|   laboratory proof that gravity is the dominant long-range force between
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|     dark and luminous matter
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> http://mek.oszk.hu/02000/02054/html/onehund.html

| […] Baron Roland von Eötvös experimentally investigated the 
| proportionality of inertial and gravitating masses in 1889, and reported 
                                                        ^^^^
| his results in the Proceedings of the Hungarian Academy in 1890
                                                             ^^^^
vs.

<http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/General_relativity.html>

| Immediately after Einstein's 1915 paper giving the correct field 
                               ^^^^                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| equations, Karl Schwarzschild found in 1916 a mathematical solution to the 
  ^^^^^^^^^                              ^^^^
| equations which corresponds to the gravitational field of a massive 
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| compact object. At the time this was purely theoretical work but, of 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                   ^^
| course, work on neutron stars, pulsars and black holes relied entirely on 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Schwarzschild's solutions and has made this part of the most important 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| work going on in astronomy today.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/downloads/HET625-M04A01.pdf

| Summary
| 
| In this activity we looked at early experiments of gravity, two different 
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| kinds of experiential masses (inertial and gravitational) and the 
| formulation of the Weak Equivalence Principal.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| In the next activity we’re going to investigate gravity and acceleration 
| in quite a bit more detail. We’ll start by jumping in an elevator and
                                                           ^^^^^^^^
| going for a ride...
 
> Etc., etc., etc.

You mean all the other sources that you have not read carefully?

> In other words, go and fuck yourself.

Crackpot.  Q.E.D.


PointedEars
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A: Fission chips.

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What is mass? gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-09-23 11:02 -0500
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      Re: What is mass? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-09-23 17:34 +0000
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              Re: What is mass? "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-09-26 22:34 -0700
        Re: What is mass? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-26 08:35 +0200
          Re: What is mass? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-09-26 12:35 +0000
            Re: What is mass? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-26 15:37 +0200
              Re: What is mass? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-26 07:14 -0700
                Re: What is mass? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-26 16:17 +0200
          a-hem; m = F/a is also gOOd noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-09-26 17:16 -0700
            Re: a-hem; m = F/a is also gOOd Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-27 03:26 +0200
              top-posting is frpowned upon by certain advertizers ... just don't ask them, why not noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-09-27 15:53 -0700
                What is mass (was: top-posting is frpowned upon by certain advertizers ... just don't ask them, why not) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-28 17:05 +0200
                a.k.a photonics -- thanks for the tip (pi dollars is gOOd noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 11:28 -0700
                Re: a.k.a photonics -- thanks for the tip (pi dollars is gOOd Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-29 21:01 +0200
                no skwares in the medium of space noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 19:29 -0700
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        Re: What is mass? "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 00:29 -0700
          Re: What is mass? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-29 13:21 +0200
            Re: What is mass? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-29 13:34 +0200
            Re: What is mass? "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 05:19 -0700
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