Re: Where is Invariant Mass?

From: TomGee (lvlus_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 14:10:10 -0700

"Morituri-Max" <newage@sendarico.net> wrote in message news:<Q3uad.17387$%e7.8901@fe1.texas.rr.com>...
> TomGee wrote:
> > regenesis0@aol.com (Derik Smith) wrote in message
> > news:<20041010232304.08241.00001689@mb-m10.aol.com>...
> >> What does invariant mass originate from?
> >
> > From the minds of theoretical physicists, wherein they base their
> > conclusions on mathematics, theory, and imagination.
>
> Next time you run into all those people that live in Nagasaki and Hiroshima,
> tell them that they weren't really destroyed by the fevered musings of all those
> theoretical physicists who thought their conclusions were just imaginary..
>
> oh wait, you can't, they all got vaporized and sickened by a figment of their
> imaginations...

I understand your concern, but it was not theoretical physicists who
made the A-bomb. Theoretical physicists don't "make" things; they
just imagine them. I regret the loss of so many Japanese lives in the
war, but a victory by them would have eventually destroyed the world
much sooner than will our current "democratic society". Our victory
in that war saved many more lives than would have been lost if we had
not used wmd. Those who built the A-bombs worked diligently to show
the world it was a weapon not to be put into irresponsible hands
because the consequence of that is world destruction.

In defense of all Japanese who died in WWII, they did not start the
war either. It was their generals - it's always the generals - who in
their response to Hitler's mad rush to conquer the world sought only
to save their people from abject slavery by carving up a slice of the
world for themselves from which to ward off the German aggressor.
They proved to be oppressive conquerors no less than the Aryan races,
but because the A-bombs (and the fall of Germany) convinced them that
their initial purpose for their entry into the war could never be
realized and their only hope for survival was surrender.

They got lucky and they survived to go on to better things. If they
had won, Hitler by now would have easily disposed of them by A-bombing
their islands and wiping them off the face of the Earth. And the
internet would all be in German only. There would be no religion
except perhaps one which the Germans would embrace, but it would not
have anything like "turn the other cheek" in it.

Our own horror-of-horrors enslavement would go on for a thousand
years....

So as we look back at the miracle that we won, it was not a bad thing,
I think, but I do regret the loss of all those lives during that
relatively lightly murderous epoch of world history. The Dark Ages
lasted 600 years and then many more lives were lost than in all our
wars since WWII. Hey, we're human beings and we are driven to satisfy
the motive of our self-preservation drive.