Relativity and Cosmology

    

Why Mass Doesn't Increase with Velocity

Authors: David M. Bower

Ever since the advent of special relativity over one hundred years ago, there has been considerable debate over the concept of "relativistic mass", i.e., whether mass increases with velocity. Although the equations of Einstein’s version of special relativity (ESR) can be interpreted to show that mass increases with velocity (and that such an increase of mass with velocity seems logically required to explain that light speed is a limiting velocity), assuming that mass increases with velocity is associated with an insurmountable logical contradiction (in view of a previously published paradox involving ESR). This insurmountable contradiction suggests that it is meaningless to postulate that mass increases with velocity

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