jeffrey75
@geoffkait , thank you once again for taking a interest in what I have to say. Matter is made of particles and particles are a vibration of a field, caries mass, and takes up space. Energy is the capacity to cause change and carries no mass and has capacity to do work when produced by matter. Realivistic mass or total energy is not the equivalent of rest mass, that is the inertial mass of object at rest, which is what you are stating. No new pseudo-physics are being claimed by my post...
>>>Actually, I’m not (rpt not) claiming/stating relativistic mass or total energy is equivalent to rest mass. What I said was, according to the famous Einstein equation, energy and mass are related by E=mc2, so one can CALCULATE the equivalent Energy of a given Mass. But that does not (rpt not) mean mass is the same thing as energy. And just because a mass vibrates at some frequency doesn’t alter the fact that it’s mass. It doesn’t mean the mass is energy.
Mass CAN be converted to energy using fusion or fission, obviously, or by burning. Mass is not just another form of energy. Also, I didn’t really say pseudo-physics, but point well taken. 😀 A black hole is purely mass, sometimes 3 billion solar masses of mass. But there is no energy, only mass, spin and electrical charge, which is probably zero. And gravity is a consequence of mass, not energy. The gravity waves detected a couple years ago, the so called ripples in spacetime, were produced by mass, not energy.
