The concept of mass is one of the most basic concepts in physics, which can only be compared to the importance of space and time. But in contrast to the latter, which is the subject of countless physical and philosophical studies, the concept of mass has been investigated but rarely.

Max Gammer, a prominent philosopher and physicist, offers a brief but comprehensive, coherent and independent study of the concept of mass as defined, interpreted and applied in contemporary physics, and critically examined in the modern philosophy of science. Focusing on proposed theories after the mid-1950s, the book is the first of its kind, covering the latest experimental and theoretical research into the nature of the mass and its role in modern physics, from the world of elementary particles to cosmology.

Of galaxies. The book begins by analyzing the continuing difficulties of defining the mass of inertia in a non-circular way, and discusses the question of whether the mass is a concept of control or theory.

He then examines the idea of ​​mass in special relativity and the sensitive problem of whether the mass of relative comfort is the only legitimate concept of mass and whether it is identical to the classical mass (Newtonian). This follows a critical analysis of the different derivations of the mass-energy relationship E = mc2 and its conflicting interpretations.

The confusion then devotes a chapter to the distinction between the mass of inertia and gravity and the different versions of the so-called principle of equivalence in which Newton began his Principia, which also became the starting point of Einstein's general relativity, which replaces Newtonian physics. The book ends with a presentation of the newly proposed global and local dynamic theories of the origin and nature of the mass. In order for this reference to become a great reference for philosophers and physicists, it is also written for the general reader is not professional interested in the assets of physics..

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