Re: Relativity theory from other angles

Am Samstag000019, 19.10.2024 um 05:03 schrieb Ross Finlayson:

On 10/18/2024 07:48 PM, bertietaylor wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 0:44:11 +0000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
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Hey, what if you derive
light speed from the
mass-energy equivalency
instead of the other way around?

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What exactly makes you think that mass and energy are equivalent?

 It's sort of simpler to have everything "pure energy"
that everything "pure mass" or "pure charge" or
"pure velocity of an organized image" or
"pure lifetime of a nuclear radioisotope",
it's sort of central and sits neatly in the space,
it's chargeless, massless, has no velocity, always changes.

I personally regard E= m*c² as wrong.
It should be:
delta(E) = -delta(m)*c²
But actually I think, that the imaginary unit i should be used here, too.
Energie is in a way 'rotated' mass, if you multiply mass by i and regard i as factor, which would rotate by an angle of 90°.
I named the 'unrotated' pattern 'mass term' and let it point upwards (be timelike).
So mass is timelike and charge (potential) spacelike.
Inbetween we have 'light-like' and that is the realm, where energy is radiated away.
But non-radiating energy should also be able exist somewhere (as 'potential') and that is the timeless realm, which we call 'spacelike'.
And that is the hyperplane of the present, if we regard the axis of time as normal to it and imaginary.
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TH