Photons, Clocks, Gravity and the Concept of Mass
Popular Physics
2015-06-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Transparencies of the 18th Henry Primakoff lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, April 11, 2001 and of the Special lecture given at the 7th International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2001, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, September 9, 2001; to be published by Elsevier Nucl. Phys. B (Proceedings supplements). Various aspects of the concept of mass in modern physics are discussed: 1. Mass in Special Relativity, 2. Atoms in Static Gravity, 3. Photons in Static Gravity, 4. Misleading Terminology, 5. Unsolved Problems of mass.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0111134,
title = {Photons, Clocks, Gravity and the Concept of Mass},
author = {L. B. Okun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0111134},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages