Orwell's Animal Farm:
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The US Declaration of Independence:
- All men are (created) equal (but some men are more equal than others)
Einstein's World of Physics:
- Mass $m$ and energy $E$ are different manifestations of the same thing: $m=\frac{E}{c^2}$
- Mass and Energy are equal.
In the first two cases it is easy to see how a Declaration by a State of equality of all men, is used by the State as a cover up of strong inequalities in both a socialistic and capitalistic State. The idea is to erode language of meaning by claiming as in 1984 that War = Peace, Freedom = Slavery, Ignorance = Strength, an so maintain the State. (this is what we see today in the Western World)
We now ask if Einstein's Mass = Energy can also seen as an erosion of language/meaning with objective to maintain a State (of Modern Physics)?
We then recall that mass is gravitational mass, which is the same as inertial mass, manifested by following the law of free fall in a gravitational potential, also manifested in Newtons 2nd Law connecting force $F$ to mass $m$ and acceleration $a=\frac{dv}{dt}$ by $F=ma$ with $v$ velocity.
Energy is work $Fv$ performed over time $t$ from $t=0$ to $t=T$ assuming $v(0)=0$, given by
- $\int_0^T Fvdt=\int_0^Tm\frac{dv}{dt}vdt=\frac{1}{2}mv(T)^2.$
thus accumulated as kinetic energy.
We see that there is a fundamental difference between mass and energy in physical meaning and physical unit. Energy $E$ per unit time is $Fv$, while mass $m=\frac{F}{a}$ and there is no clear connection between $E$ and mass $m$.
Nevertheless modern physicists have decided to follow Einstein's Mass = Energy. Since the physics is missing this is instead stipulated (since 2019) in the SI Standard as a definition of the unit of mass in terms of energy according to $m=\frac{E}{c^2}$. The SI unit of mass is thus stipulated so as to please Einstein by making $E=mc^2$ true.
The lack of physics of $E=mc^2$ is thus compensated by an agreement that $E=mc^2$ is correct, even if the physics is different. This is like a Declaration that "all men are equal", even if the reality is different.
It is possible to see $E=mc^2$ as a Declaration to maintain a State of Modern Physics.
The Standard Model follows up by zoo of particles described by the strange play of words borrowed from Finnegan’s Wake.
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