Thursday 7 December 2017

special relativity - Relativistic mass of components gives system rest mass?



To put it briefly, in the classic thought experiment of a massless box with mirrored insides containing photons, does the relativistic mass of the photons imbue the box with rest mass?


I take it that's the case, because I think that's how baryons are supposed to get their mass, but I'm not really getting how this is happening exactly.




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