Matter as a low vibration of the ? or ?ther

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Matter as a low vibration of the ? or ?ther

January 10th, 2021

Relativists use the "matter fields" definition by which they mean pretty much anything that has energy or momentum. By this usage, both electromagnetic waves and static electromagnetic fields are referred to as matter. Some older books use mass to mean what is now referred to as "relativistic mass," which is a quantity that varies with motion. The universal convention today, except in popularizations, is to define "mass" using the equation ??2=??2???2 (in units with ??=1), which does not vary with motion.

So by modern conventions, electromagnetic fields, including electromagnetic waves are "matter" (matter fields) that have no "mass" (invariant mass). Gravitational waves are massless, but relativists don't usually refer to them as a matter field, because they aren't explicitly written in the Einstein field equations as part of the stress-energy tensor -- but they do contribute to the gravitational mass of an object as measured by an observer at a distance.

Science has created great confusion with the "mass" and "matter" concepts, so incredible to understand. To be honest, I prefer my definition of matter as a low vibration of the ? or ?ther.

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