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Originally Posted by renormalised
About mass and KE.....it could either go two ways. One, the KE becomes infinite, which can't happen....or two, since M and E are equivalent, the mass becomes infinite and you get an infinitely heavy singularity. Either way, the gravity must become infinite. If that particle were to stop (by hitting something, say), the energy has to go somewhere. Since it's infinite, it doesn't matter whether it's transfered to the body it hits or to itself, it becomes mass....an infinite mass derived now from PE. Wam.....instant infinitely heavy black hole. Goodbye universe  |
No it doesn't. Relativistic mass = Rest mass + KE. Rest mass is constant. KE is tied up in the velocity of the particle. There will be no increase in the "mass component" of relativistic mass.
If you are so against infinities why do you readily accept infinite mass in your argument.
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Steven