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Does the energy of the strong force have mass? [closed]
The mass of a proton is said to predominantly be "comprised" of the mass of the strong force interactions within the proton. Logically, one could conclude that the energy (the strong force ...
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How can energy creat mass? [closed]
From $E=mc^2$, we know that energy can be mass. But how? Like how can particles (gluon, photon, W boson and others) create energy? What do they do? How do they move and create mass?
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Is an electron completely determined by its mass? [duplicate]
What I mean is, could a chunk of matter be "whittled down" or broken off from a larger chunk of matter to the point where it has the mass either exactly of an electron or close to that and ...
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Positive mass but negative/positive/neutral charge
I have heard that the mass of a particle can't be negative because the hamiltonian should be bounded from below. What is the formal argument regarding this and why the same argument doesn't follow ...
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Would it be safe to say that mass is kind of a property of energy?
In a video i just saw about the true meaning of $E=mc^2$, it said something that really got me thinking; "Mass is not really converted to energy" and that mass wasn't actually a thing, but more of a ...
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Why do we need high energy to explore small dimensions?
I am taking a quantum physics class, and for the life of me, I can not remember why we would need a vast amount of energy to understand the microscopic universe.
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Could there be massive gravitons and in our spacetime? [closed]
My question is: Could there in principle be sub-groups of gravitons (if they existed) that has mass (and in our spacetime dimensions) such as those affected by electric or by strong force or other ...
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The building blocks of energy
I have a couple of related questions that have been bothering me for a while. They might sound unscientific, but here is goes:
What are the building blocks of energy? What does energy consist of? Is ...
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What is meant by the rest energy of non-composite particle?
When talking about the rest energy of a composite particle such as a proton, part of the rest energy is accounted for by the internal kinetic energy of its constituent quarks. But what is physically ...
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