[ExI] Quantum gravity

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:57 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>  >> On 2020-9-16 18:15, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:
>  >>> relativistic mass-energy equivalence predicted nuclear forces
>  >>> account for the majority of the mass of an atom
>
>  > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:15 AM Anton Sherwood wrote:
>  >> Majority? That doesn't seem right; then the relation of mass to
>  >> number of nucleons ought to be less linear than it is.
>
> On 2020-9-17 11:22, John Clark wrote:
>  > One AMU is defined as exactly 1/12 the mass of a carbon 12 nucleus
>  > which consists of six protons and six neutrons, but the mass of a free
>  > independent Proton that is not bound to anything else is 1.007276 AMU
>  > and for a Neutron it's 1.008665 AMU, and obviously 12 of those don't
>  > add up to exactly 12 AMUs.  [...]
>
> And I'm saying 0.008665 is not a majority of 1.

Right. I got that. You meant mass is roughly equal to the number of
nucleons -- almost linear. I don't see why others didn't get that. The
correction figure is measurable, but it's definitely not overwhelming,
which is what I took 'majority of the mass' to mean. (That is, I
thought Stuart was saying the mass isn't roughly equal to the number
of nucleons, that the relativistic correction would be much much
larger than it actually is.)

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