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Black holes collision

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cavediver
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06-15-2008 2:34 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by jag
06-15-2008 2:26 PM

Re: Mundane response #1
If energy has mass, how can it travel at the speed of light?
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Unfortunately, there are several concepts all described as mass. A particle will travel at the speed of light if it has zero rest-mass. But that is not the same as its gravitational mass.
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06-15-2008 2:45 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by cavediver
06-15-2008 2:34 PM

Re: Mundane response #1
I think of mass a physical presence that has itertia. If energy has gravitational mass, does that mean that a larger collection of energy would have a measurable gravitational pull on a body of mass?
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If so: How sensitive are our best gravitational sensors and how much energy would be required to be detectable?
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