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Old 04-06-2006   #20 (permalink)
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Re: Explain Mass.

I've been playing around with some experiments. It is very strange how movment of matter creates a greater inertia, but doesnt appear to affect its mass. For example, a simple thing as spinning a bicycle wheel in your hands. Its weight or mass does not change, gravity pulls on it the same when you speed it up. But, with the cyntrifugal forces happening, the wheel feels that it has more inertia in all ways perpindicular to its main direction of motion. It becomes hard to move side to side, and rotational side to side. We all know this, its been explained, but it still intrigues me when you think about it at the quantum level. It all sounds so simple but are we not somehow in the vacuum of space creating a force, and is this force emminating from the wheel/system? or is it interacting with space-time..
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