Petkov, Vesselin
(2023)
Relativistic Mass is an Experimental Fact.
[Preprint]
Abstract
Since mass is defined as the measure of the (experimentally established) resistance a particle offers to its acceleration and as it is also an experimental fact that a particle’s resistance to its acceleration increases when its velocity increases, it follows that, like mass, the concept of relativistic mass also reflects an experimental fact. This means that the rejection of the relativistic velocity dependence of mass amounts to both rejection of the experimental evidence and refusing to face and deal with one of the deepest open questions in fundamental physics -- the origin and nature of the inertial resistance of a particle to its acceleration, i.e., the origin and nature of its inertial mass.
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