Here's the question - actually 2 essential questions.
If e=mc², then what portion of that total energy can be attributed to the former gravity of the mass particle prior to the conversion and where does that gravity go afterwards?
On the other hand, when massless energy particles interact to form matter from pure energy, what portion of that energy becomes the gravitational energy of the resulting mass particles and where does that gravity originate?
The equation e=mc² seems to imply that all the resulting energy is purely electromagnetic, but electromagnetic energy and gravity seem to have entirely different properties and have so far eluded any effort to unify them.
Somewhere during this interconversion process gravity disappears into nowhere or appears from nowhere as the result of an entirely electromagnetic process that in no way addresses where gravity goes or originates.
Where's Stephen Hawking when I need him ?
2006-07-09
19:53:46
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Jay T
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