2010/10/26 by L.B. Okun, L. B. Okun · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ph #physics.ed-ph #physics.hist-ph #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/9789814350198_0040
8 pages, 1 figure in English (9 pages, 1 figure in Russian)
arxiv created 2010/10/26 · openalex publication_date 2011/04/01 · arxiv updated 2017/08/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This note is an attempt to explain in simple words why the famous relation E = mc2 misrepresents the essence of Einstein’s relativity theory. The note is addressed to high-school teachers, and a part of it – to those university professors who permit themselves to say that the mass of a body increases with its velocity or momentum and thus mislead the teachers and their students. 1