Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> We know of one exception to the conservation of energy, which involves the > interchangeability of mass and energy. So the ultimate principle is > conservation of mass/energy. However, mass conversion is very much out of > the ordinary, and is highly unlikely in a "magnet motor." > I believe that is incorrect. According to the physics textbooks I have read, all sources of energy, and all forms of energy, always reduce mass. All endothermic reactions increase mass. I recall this is essential to general relativity. At least, to the parts that everyone agrees on. According to Philip Morrison the mass deficit has never been confirmed in reactions on earth. Either the change in mass is far too small to measure (for example, with a combustion or nuclear power reactor), or the energy release is too large and too fast (for example, with a megaton nuclear bomb). - Jed
