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Old 11-22-2003, 05:51 PM   #34 (permalink)
HoChiMinh
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Knife Missle, that does make more sense now.

What I was asking about the Kinetic energy was confusing.
I was basically asking about the conservation of energy.

If you can put an infinite amount of energy into accelerating an object, yet it will not increase in velocity as it approaches the speed of light. Where does the energy go?

Since it was explained that the object becomes more massive with speed. I was asking if the special relativity equation could be solved for mass. Then the energy that does not increase velocity of the object when it's velocity approaches c could be inserted into: m=E/(c^2). and that would account for the increase in mass.

It is just confusing because the energy that it would take to bring an object to the speed of light is finite if the mass does not change.
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