I didn't say potential energy isn't energy. And what I wanted to show is that the potential energy would increase as well as kinetic energy as they moved closer because of that inverse square relation. I don't truly care about impact, I want to see what it looks like going towards impact.
And a change in kinetic energy does increase relative mass. What else is the Lorentz contraction equation used for then?
Here is a site on
Lorentz Transformations. And it says that:
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The speed of light c is said to be the speed limit of the universe because nothing can be accelerated to the speed of light with respect to you. A common way of describing this situation is to say that as an object approaches the speed of light, its mass increases and more force must be exerted to produce a given acceleration. There are difficulties with the "changing mass" perspective, and it is generally preferrable to say that the relativistic momentum and relativistic energy approach infinity at the speed of light.
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That is why my situation includes the relative mass ratio in it.
And my comment about "being inside the black hole" was not such for I was referencing a worm hole which wont be occurring.
And something that just occured to me that you may have been saying that I didn't realize is: That as the objects move closer and increase speeds, the mass increases. How does the gravitational force start to play into this? Then the K being used has to transform as well.... I say that I am still asking my Prof. tomorrow.