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Article #5681Re: energy, mass, and all that
From: Matthew P Wiener
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:32
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:32
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In article <19NOV199211063691@csa1.lbl.gov>, sichase@csa1 (SCOTT I CHASE) writes: >If energy and matter are not interconvertible, where does all the energy >of an atomic bomb blast come from? Simple. The energy that used to be binding is now blast, light, heat. While it was binding, the energy was localized enough that we could weigh it directly, and so the bomb weighed E-bind/c^2 more than it would have otherwise. -- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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