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Re: Neutrinos

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From: Kevin Anthony Scaldeferri
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.970417182445.29917B-100000@ruunat.fys.ruu.nl>,
Dries van Oosten  <dvoosten@fys.ruu.nl> wrote:

>doesn't change. If it would, what you say would have to be true and what
>you say can't be true since this would mean that light (moving at c) would
>see all masses infinitely large. This would mean that all masses would
>"attract" light with the same strength. This is absurd. Every object would
>be a black hole. Correct me if I make a mistake here, but this is how I
>see it.

Just because two quantities are infinite doesn't mean they are equal.
If you look at the ratio of the observed masses as the observer's
velocity is taken to c, it will be different from 1.


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From: coolhand@Glue.umd.edu (Kevin Anthony Scaldeferri)
Subject: Re: Neutrinos
Date: 1997/04/17
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