Re: E <=> MC^2 generally ...and also inside living things!

From: Sane (Sane_at_NoEmail.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:31:51 -0700

"Harry Conover" <hhc314@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Duane C. Johnson" <redrok@redrok.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > The mass energy conversion shows up in ANY conversion. For example:
> > Let's burn 4 hydrogen atoms with 2 oxygen atoms to release heat.
> > The two H2O water molecules will have less mass than the
> > 4 hydrogen and 2 oxygen atoms before they were burnt.
>
> No.
>
> > OK, the mass change is exceedingly small but has been measured.
>
> No.
>
> Now I believe I know where you are coming from: The analogy of does a
> compressed spring storing energy have more mass than an uncompressed
> spring.
>
> In theory it would, however, the mass equivalent of the energy that
> went into compressing the spring is so minute that the concept would
> be impossible to experimentally observe or verify. Whether of not the
> situation is factual or not becomes a matter of your confidence in the
> theory.
>
> In generaly, no net mass change has ever been observed in any chemical
> reaction.
>
> Harry C.

Not true! After a high explosive releases its energy it weighs nothing.
:-)

Sane

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