More Orwellian 1984 Physics

This is a follow up of the previous post identifying a practice in both modern western society and modern western physics to erode language of meaning by equating things which are different as a form of equality politics, used to keep the ruling class on top. 

In modern physics this practice was introduced by Einstein in his famous $E=mc^2$ equating energy $E$ with mass $m$ through the speed of light $c$ squared, over the heads of the people: 

• It follows from the Special Theory of Relativity that mass and energy are both (but different)  manifestations of the same thing, a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind.   

 

In the 2019 update of the SI Standard of units in physics, this is incorporated by simply defining the unit of mass in terms of energy according to $m=\frac{E}{c^2}$ by a specific procedure using a Kibble balance. 

Inspecting a Kibble balance we discover that it measures mechanical energy $mgv$ by equating it to  electrical energy $VI$, which is measured in the balance and so gives a measure of mechanical mass $m$ with given values of gravitational constant $g$ and velocity $v$. We thus understand that a Kibble balance measures mechanical mass as the classical form of gravitational/inertial mass, and there is here no role for $m=\frac{E}{c^2}$. 

Even an average mind can now understand that equating mechanical energy connected to mechanical mass $m$ to some other unspecified form of energy $E$ somehow connected to $m$ through $E=mc^2$, means eroding the concept of both energy and mass of meaning. 

The physics community were long skeptical to Einstein's unspecified form of energy according to $E=mc^2$, but the temptation to fool the average mind has now taken over in a desperate effort to secure funding to fundamental physics. 

In classical physics there are ultimately only two forms of energy: mechanical energy and electrical energy connected to gravitational force and Coulomb force. There is no need of inventing some new unspecified form of energy as $E=mc^2$.  

But what about photon energy $hf$? Well, light can transmit energy between oscillating charges carrying electrical energy, but light cannot store energy, because it has no mass. This is seen in an electrical grids which need rotating mechanical masses like turbins to stabilize the grid over variations in input and output.  

Summary: The relation $E=mc^2$ appears as an add on which serves no purpose to define the unit of mass and how to measure mass. It remains to understand its role to compute energy release in nuclear reactions from measured mass defects, which will be the topic in a next post.