(Originally posted on Mar 5, 2007 4:29)
Ok, enough about the non-stairwaytoheavenability of karaoke bars.
It's past the time we talk about something serious in this blog.
This is one that I've been mulling about since I was a kid.
Everybody knows that E=mc2, which directly relates energy and mass.
It says that the greater the mass of an object, the greater its energy.
Therefore, the reverse should also be true. The greater the energy, the greater the mass.
Ok, enough about the non-stairwaytoheavenability of karaoke bars.
It's past the time we talk about something serious in this blog.
This is one that I've been mulling about since I was a kid.
Everybody knows that E=mc2, which directly relates energy and mass.
It says that the greater the mass of an object, the greater its energy.
Therefore, the reverse should also be true. The greater the energy, the greater the mass.
I'm no Einstein so I don't know what kind of energy are we talking about here. So what I wonder is: Will any kind of energy do? I mean... Like potential gravitational energy, for example? If you pick your left shoe from the floor and hold it a meter above the ground you increase its potential gravitational energy, right? So therefore do you increase it's mass? Of course in the case of this example the numbers would be almost infinitely small. BUT does it happen?? Or how about thermal energy. Does heating your ibric on the stove increase it's mass? It should, right? The theory grants that higher the velocity of an object, the bigger the mass, right? And when the velocity of an object approaches the speed of light its mass will tend to infinity. So I guess what I've been wondering about is right. Right?
Well, I don't expect any physicists to be reading this blog but if any of you know anything about this, please let me know.
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