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Chris Wagner wrote:
> 
> Let me define rest mass and reletive mass (the two terms you're searching
> for BTW)
> 
> Rest mass is the mass of something in *your frame of reference*.  i.e. I
> have a block sitting in front of me on a scale.  It is at rest with respect
> to me.  I can therefore measure its mass, at rest... "rest mass".
> 
> Anything moving with respect to me has a reletive mass.  This is because
> the faster you go the greater your reletive mass (to me).  Your reletive
> mass (to me) is proportional to your velocity and your rest mass.  As
> velocity goes to c, reletive mass goes to infinity.  Rest mass does not
> change. The only way for reletive mass to not go to infinity is if the rest
> mass is zero. Hence, a photon with zero rest mass has zero reletive mass as
> well.  For an object with positive rest mass, the reletive mass increases with
> velocity.  To calculate the gravity created by the moving object you need
> the reletive mass.  Gravity too is reletive.  So an object moving with
> respect to you exerts more gravity on you than if you were at rest with
> respect to that object.  If you caught up with the object, matched velocity
> with it, the gravitational attraction would decrease because its reletive
> mass (to you) has decreased.  It now exerts the gravitational attraction
> of only its rest mass.

Does this mean that if I manage to get a pebble to very near light
speed, it will start acting like a rather large gravity well?