Re: Sci Am proposes SR wrong and Aether exists

On 30 "David Thomson" <google@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Joe Fischer wrote:
>> Mass is the ONE thing that is measurable, the one thing
>> that can have physical attributes, the one thing that is real,
>> that exists, that actually is.
>> It is the -- QUANTITY -- of matter, a material thing,
>> in a universe of material things made up of mass and energy,
>> energy essentially being matter in motion.
>
>You still don't get it?

I got it long before you were born, without matter
and energy there is nothing.


> You are using two different definitions of
>mass in the same sentence and not recognizing your error.

I made no error, there are two ways to measure the
quantity of matter, by accelerating it and comparing the
force required, or to count the number of atoms and
molecules multiply by the mass of each along with well
established actual measurements of binding energy, etc.

>When mass
>has a quantity, i.e. it is a measurement, then it is called a kilogram,
>gram, or some similar unit. It is the kilogram that is measureable,
>not the dimension of mass. The dimension of mass is merely the quality
>of the kilogram, not the kilogram itself. It is the *kilogram* that is
>the QUANTITY, not the *dimension* of mass.

Like I said before, you assemble words into a
sentence that don't even belong on the same page.

I changed my mind, don't promote your book,
burn it and start writing fiction, it will probably sell
a lot better.

Joe Fischer

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