Posted: Jul 21, 2010 3:15 pm
by twistor59
num1cubfn wrote:
twistor59 wrote:Starting at around slide 67 in this link, Smolin talks about an energy dependent violation of the SR relation

E2 = p2+m2


Therfore:

mc2 = (sqrt)|p2+m2?


except the "m" on the RHS is the rest mass, whereas your LHS "m" would be the relativstic mass. The formula I gave was the usual relation for the squared length of the energy momentum 4 vector. He's suggesting that might change ....

ETA also I'm using "natural units" where c=1. (Might not be a great choice if c varies !)