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Bararontok
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Einstein stated in a paper concerning the discovery of the quantization of electromagnetic force that an object emitting electromagnetic radiation will lose its inertial mass. If this is the case, then why does the gravitational force of the sun not weaken and the sun not become less massive as a result of emitting electromagnetic radiation for billions of years? Is inertial mass equivalent to active gravitational mass or are they merely proportional?
sources:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Development_of_Our_Views_on_the_Composition_and_Essence_of_Radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass
sources:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Development_of_Our_Views_on_the_Composition_and_Essence_of_Radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass