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In article <9207240533.AA11483@Ra.MsState.Edu> rsf1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Robert S. Fritzius) writes:
>Cross-posted from alt.sci.physics.new-theories
> 
>In article <1992Jul22.150401.15820@news.endg.convex.com> Steve Warren
>writes:
> 
>>The biggest practical reason that FTL travel is impossible (unless new
>>discoveries in physics are made - that are not anticipated right now)
>>is because of the mass increase phenomenum.  This has been repeatedly
>>verified experimentally, . . .
> 
>In 1908 Swiss physicist Walter Ritz proposed an emission theory of general
>electrodynamics(1) in which the mass of charged bodies do not increase
>toward, relativistically, but rather that their masses remain constant and
>the electrodynamic acceleration forces approach zero.
> 

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>How do we unambiguously determine whether mass increases relativistically
>or whether electromagnetic forces decrease relativistically?
> 
> 

  Someone correct me if I'm wrong (I'm just a physics *student*) about
this.  When particles get zinging around near c in, say, the Bevatron here
at Berkeley, not only does it require more energy to accelerate them, but
when they smash into something (i.e. an antiparticle or something like that)
the energy released is significantly *more* than can be acounted for by the
particles rest mass (by a factor of several hundred if I remember
correctly).  I doubt Mr. Ritz accounted for that.  After all, his time was
long before particle accelerators.
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