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Thank you for your replies. However, they don't answer why if you put energy (i.e. the KE of the proton) into the system you get more out - and based on the fact we know the exact amount we get out using the mass defect, surely we know what causes this effect? I know you're going to say 'binding...

Hello. Can you shed a different light on why mass defects exist please, so that I might finally grasp it intuitively?! I've had a look at these nuclear threads and one about GPE, https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-is-there-a-mass-defect-in-the-nucleous.374443/...

Hi. If calculations of the Lorentz factor are by thought experiments using the constancy of the speed of light in inertial frames (I also know of using simultaneous equations for a light signal in two different frames with a conjectured Lorentz factor to calculate it but this also involves...