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Article #6974Re: EINSTEINIANA'S NEW DEFINITION OF MASS
From: pmb
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:09
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:09
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On Mar 2, 7:45 am, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 2, 6:42 am, pmb <pm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2:05 pm, "marika" <marika5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > "pmb" <pm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > >news:ceb736e2-2971-4f4f-a5ea-2c68cfd69b4e@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com... > > EINSTEINIANA'S NEW DEFINITION OF MASS > > "Mass is a service where people congregate (form a mass) and worship > the Universe (but only out to the causal horizon)." Oy! Obviously a joke, but a very poor one. Most words have multiple meanings, the specific meaning must be gleened from the context in which its used. See Merriam-Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass[2] The way you tried to define it comes from the etymology of the the term "mass" as used by physicists. I.e. the word “mass” originated from the Latin equivalent “massa” which originally meant “lump of dough or paste.” Later on it came to mean “a quantity or aggregate of matter usually of considerable size.” This is how the meaning came to be used in the Catholic church, i.e. mass = “a quantity or aggregate of people usually of considerable size." Later on Newton came along and used “mass” to mean “quantity of matter.” And that came to have its meaning we have today for “mass of a particle”. See "Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics,' by Max Jammer, Dover Pub. (most recent copyright 1997) Pete - From Mass
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