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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
But mass is not matter. You can add mass by increasing speed but the matter in an object does not increase.
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Ahh. We're getting dirty aren't we?!
Relativistically speaking you are correct. Mass is a measure of inertia rather than amount of substance. But when you wrote: "Not really, in any reaction no matter is created or destroyed" you were actually using a phrase directly pointing to the "conservation of mass law" as formulated by
Antoine Lavoisier. Back then the universe was Newtonian and matter mattered!!!
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