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Date Posted: 12:54:13 05/27/01 Sun
Author: Brighton Merriweather
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a few things.
In reply to: the silent speaker 's message, "Well, yes." on 15:41:52 05/25/01 Fri

Actually, i don't think m directly translates to x/c2. Here's why. For any phase shift, there is an equilibrium point for the phases, you must add energy beyong that break point for the phase shift to actually occur. so a little bit of the energy is used up in actually ininitiating the phase shift. so, for a chunk of mass, m=x/c2, but for a chunk of energy x, that you convert to mass (and i don't now how you do that) it may not give m, only because some energy is dissapated or stored elsewhere. I could be wrong, but.....

Second, alot of energy goes into making very little mass, compared to what....? A proton is 2000 times the mass of an electron, but i think it only has on the level of a few MEV of energy. Also consider that only about 1/3 of the mass of a proton is contained within the quarks. not to mention the fact that they think that gravity may lose energy in other dimensions that we don't percieve in. Which would explain why it's so much weaker than all the other forces even though all the forces are thought to unify at some point. My point is not that i think your wrong about this, but that it's an utter mess and very hard to be certain about.

Lastly, about the rock. the pool of saidin was described as being very viscous. Second, even in the vaccum of space, rocks don't swell like that, if it expanded like that it would be red hot because of it, or it would have crumbled under the strain.

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