Re: mass increase due to speed
robert wrote:
If you were in a spaceship with absolutely nothing in your visual range, and
another identical spaceship moving in a straight line flew passed you, SR
tells us that it would be impossible to know who's moving and who's
stationary. But wouldn't measuring the mass of both spaceships tell us
who's moving as their spaceship would have a greater mass due to the effect
of movement through spacetime?
Paul.
How do you propose to measure the mass? Whatever method you
propose, you will find that each would measure the other as
having the greater mass.
.
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