Sorry, it was just meant as a joke. Honest, no offense intended.
I agree with you. In a gravitational setting it seems difficult to distinguish the two. But I realize now that there are other fields where mass and energy really are separate in a meaningful way.For example this...
First off F = -kx lol, sorry I had to.
Second, I think there is a misunderstanding. Are you aware that all energy gravitates? At the beginning of this thread I specifically said this is a discussion in a general relativistic setting.
What I am getting at, is what is the functional...
That seems problematic, imagine if I build a scale out of glass which has a lid and closed box. And I fill the scale with light, you would then claim that the light had mass using your definition. This is why it seems difficult to distinguish between mass and energy in any way. And hence why...
PAllen, thank you for your replies they have been very helpful.I have an additional question, would it be fair then to say that it is the total energy which resists motion? So for example the mass term m in Newtons second law could be replaced with E/c^2 ? I realize that for many situations...
Ok that's fair enough, although it seems strange to define mass like that.
Does anyone know how you would actually experimentally measure the rest mass as opposed to the total energy of something?
What I mean is, say you put an object on a scale, you would actually be measuring its total...
See my reply to DaleSpam above.
How can you say their rest mass is zero? How do you measure the rest mass of a particle opposed to just all the energy stored in it (including rest mass energy)? In a general relativistic setting what is the difference between stored energy and rest mass...
ahh ok thank you. I had never heard of a pp-wave spacetime before now. I have only taken one undergraduate course in gr (a senior level one).
Edit: also to give more perspective that was at a quarter school, ie 10 week classes.
First time using the quote system, hopefully I don't screw this up.
Ok that's fair (at least to the best of my knowledge)
Well what I mean is how can you say the mass is zero? If I have a reflective box with an equal amount of anti matter and matter on a triple beam balance, and I let...
Well Drakkith what I mean is, if photons curve spacetime, then what is the difference between massive and massless particles in a GR setting? How do they behave differently.
Also WannabeNewton I don't understand your post. Are you saying photons don't curve spacetime?
My question is, do...
Hello all, I am asking this question in the context of general relativity.
In general relativity the stress-energy tensor is related to the spacetime metric through the Einstein field equations. The production of a curved spacetime is what creates what we call gravitation. For example a...
Yes there would be a weight difference. The charged battery would weigh* more. All energy** gravitates.
*here the working definition of weight, is what you measure on a scale
**gravitational energy is a concept only useful in certain limits, and does not apply here.
Thanks :) I am following it fairly closely up until the nuclear stuff. I also opt out of the curve fitting they do and instead generate a look up table by cycling through p(x) and epsilon(x). This was actually incredibly benefecial because despite their claims, there are actually 3 important...
I should probably be more clear about that. This is calculating the local energy density. So my mentality is this. The Yukawa potential and model for the Pauli exclusion principle die off to be pretty much zero within 5 fm. And I am at nuclear densities, so my approximation could be phrased...
pervect, I am getting pressure via the method outlined in this paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0309041
in line 13 of page 9. I am using a numerical derivative. I am also using the TOV equation outlined in line 5 on page 6.
I am doing my hexagonal close packing in flat space...