The Essential Relationship Between Mass and Energy
Zifeng Li
Keywords: special relativity, mass, energy, velocity of light, mass-velocity equation, mass-energy equation
Published in:
- Scientific Inquiry, 8(2): 256-262.
- Science, 2007, (20): 6-8. (in simplified Chinese)
- Chinese Academic Forum, 2006, (34):55-57. (in traditional Chinese)
This paper introduces the essences of mass, time, length and energy, as well as their standard measurement units, analyzes mass-velocity relationships in different theories, and comments on these relationships. Also the paper negates the mass-velocity equation and the mass-energy equation in the special relativity; analyzes the source and generating mechanism of atomic energy. The author deems that mass is mass, energy is energy; mass cannot be transformed into energy and energy cannot be transformed into mass. These two concepts can??t be converted into each other. There are mass conservation and energy conservation, individually.
