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

From: Harry Conover (hhc314_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/11/04


Date: 11 Aug 2004 11:47:34 -0700


"Duane C. Johnson" <redrok@redrok.com> wrote in message news:<41198952.7A07F7C7@redrok.com>...
>
> 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.



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