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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 128: Total Eclipse of Breitbart
LordoftheMorons 08/23/17 12:55:29 AM #210:	NFUN posted... hey lotm would an object in a gravitational well have lower mass than when it's free like in other potential wells or do weird general relativistic shenanigans screw with that? I'm not sure exactly what you mean by stuff having a lower mass in a potential. The potential should lower the object's energy but not its mass. Most physicists define mass to be invariant (m^2c^4=E^2-(pc)^2 is a frame independent constant) so your momentum is gammamv instead of mv with a varying m. If you are going with a definition of mass where m=gammam0 though the only thing that affects the mass is the object's velocity. --- Congrats to BKSheikah* for winning the BYIG Guru Challenge! <cite>LordoftheMorons posted [p:885282612] in Politics C... [t:75691518]...</cite> <quote><cite>NFUN posted...</cite> <quote>hey lotm would an object in a gravitational well have lower mass than when it's free like in other potential wells or do weird general relativistic shenanigans screw with that?</quote> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by stuff having a lower mass in a potential. The potential should lower the object's energy but not its mass. Most physicists define mass to be invariant (m^2c^4=E^2-(pc)^2 is a frame independent constant) so your momentum is gammamv instead of mv with a varying m. If you are going with a definition of mass where m=gamma*m0 though the only thing that affects the mass is the object's velocity. --- Congrats to BKSheikah for winning the BYIG Guru Challenge!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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