Re: origin of rest mass

From: FrediFizzx (fredifizzx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/05/04


Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:54:56 -0700


"Lautcaur" <lautcaur@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040605104915.18527.00000556@mb-m07.aol.com...
| Why make it so complicated? Mass is a property of energy, not an entity in
| itself. Rest mass is merely a property of the energy represented by an
entity
| at rest.

You don't have a fundamental mechanism. Rest mass looks like to me that it
could be an interaction between charged fermions and vacuum charge = +,-
sqrt(hbar*c).

FrediFizzx



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