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from wiki:
E=mc^2
I'm still having trouble conceptualizing this equivalence. If the wiki article speaks true:
If a particle is in a higher energy state, it's actually more massive than the same particle in a lower energy state?
According to the theory of relativity, mass and energy as commonly understood are two names for the same thing, and one is not changed to the other. Rather, neither one appears without the other. Thus, when energy changes type and leaves a system, it takes its mass with it.
E=mc^2
I'm still having trouble conceptualizing this equivalence. If the wiki article speaks true:
If a particle is in a higher energy state, it's actually more massive than the same particle in a lower energy state?