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With CERN's Large Hadron Collider being in the news recently, I began to think of a question that bothered me for years about particle accelerators.
It is well known in physics that mass increases as velocity does (Special Relativity if I'm not mistaken), so if these particles in the LHC are being accelerated to 99.9% of the speed of light, then would their mass be increasing to infinity?
Or, would his only happen when it is even CLOSER to approaching c, say, 99.999999%?
Just curious..
It is well known in physics that mass increases as velocity does (Special Relativity if I'm not mistaken), so if these particles in the LHC are being accelerated to 99.9% of the speed of light, then would their mass be increasing to infinity?
Or, would his only happen when it is even CLOSER to approaching c, say, 99.999999%?
Just curious..