Vy Posted April 25, 2016 Content Count: 1385 Joined: 05/22/11 Status: Offline Share Posted April 25, 2016 Quite a simple question really. Is mass a constant variable? Does it or can it change? I wanted to make this poll cuz I am honestly interested in what you guys think. Ill explain the answer when I wake up tomorrow If I don't forget. Link to comment
Luke Posted April 25, 2016 Content Count: 2230 Joined: 12/14/15 Status: Offline Share Posted April 25, 2016 I put yes at a first glance, though I was thinking way too deeply. After a bit of a nudge in the right direction and taking into consideration things I hadn't even thought about, I wish I could change my answer. Link to comment
Sniper Posted April 25, 2016 Content Count: 657 Joined: 07/21/10 Status: Offline Share Posted April 25, 2016 Mass is constant, weight is not. Link to comment
ItzMiLK Posted April 25, 2016 Content Count: 422 Joined: 09/04/15 Status: Offline Share Posted April 25, 2016 It honestly depends where, in certain conditions mass can be constant. But gravity changes place to place, and eninsteins theory state that mass and energy are the same. In the universe I would say mass is not constant as the law of conservation of matter has been proven many times that it is wrong. Link to comment
roux Posted April 25, 2016 Content Count: 2579 Joined: 02/27/16 Status: Offline Share Posted April 25, 2016 It honestly depends where, in certain conditions mass can be constant. But gravity changes place to place, and eninsteins theory state that mass and energy are the same. In the universe I would say mass is not constant as the law of conservation of matter has been proven many times that it is wrong. Milkmilkmilk.. Weight =/= mass. Weight depends on the gravity you're on, for example,i'd weight tons on Saturn Mass is supposed to stay the same in a hermetically closed space ( like a lab ), but thats only according to the conservation law, which is likely to be true. I've read somewhere in a book that mass and energy were NOT constant at 100%, but more at a 99.99999999% rate It would mean that a little tiny chicke foetus bit of it is lost somewhere,can't validate that shit by myself so don't quote me there I'd say yes, according to our technology level, we can say that mass is indeed constant 1 Link to comment
Elemental Posted April 26, 2016 Content Count: 3287 Joined: 01/06/14 Status: Offline Share Posted April 26, 2016 Maybe Link to comment
BloodyKiller Posted April 26, 2016 Content Count: 1300 Joined: 03/19/16 Status: Offline Share Posted April 26, 2016 With my physics level, I'd say yes. There may have some exceptions in some places we couldn't explain in totality either explore yet, like black holes. Link to comment
Vy Posted April 26, 2016 Content Count: 1385 Joined: 05/22/11 Status: Offline Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) It's not constant. It's relative. It increases if you speed up. One of the reasons why we won't be able to go at the speed of light is cuz the mass would be infinite and you can't really move such an object, it has too much inertia. If v is equal to c then sqrt(1 - 1) = 0, dividing anything by zero gives you infinity. It's really hard to observe because... Let's say you're pushing a shopping cart by a constant velocity of 10 m/s. It's mass is 10 kg. v = 10 m/s m = 10 kg c = ~300e8 m/s Tbf, my calculator just says fuck it and the sqrt is still 1. It's such a small number it's impossible to notice. Time and length is also relative. Pretty interesting actually. Oh by the way, there were actually tests done that back this up. 1 Edited April 26, 2016 by Vy Link to comment
Goku Posted April 26, 2016 Content Count: 2589 Joined: 02/05/12 Status: Offline Share Posted April 26, 2016 @Vy did you make an entire thread, just to be a fucking nerd? 2 Link to comment
Vy Posted April 26, 2016 Content Count: 1385 Joined: 05/22/11 Status: Offline Share Posted April 26, 2016 @Vy did you make an entire thread, just to be a fucking nerd?Yes. I've no shame. 2 Link to comment
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