Page 225 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

was actually a form of energy. His mathematical formula for this
was the famous E=mc . 143 An entity with mass appears solely as
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a form of energy. Peter Russell has made this statement:

Even the notion of mass is questionable. In his General Theory of
Relativity, Albert Einstein showed that mass and acceleration are in-
distinguishable. A person in an elevator feels lighter when the eleva-
tor accelerates downwards, and heavier when it decelerates to a halt.
This is no illusion, scales would also show your weight to have
changed. What we experience as mass is the resistance of the ground
beneath our feet to our otherwise free fall towards the center of the
Earth. According to Einstein, we are being continually decelerated,
and interpret that as mass. An astronaut in orbit experiences no
mass—until, that is, he bumps into the wall of the spacecraft and ex-
periences a temporary deceleration. 144

Imagine a police officer on a motorbike catching up to a speeding car.
In Newton's How can the story of the police of-
view, ficer be so different to yours, as
the dri- you watched from the pavement?
ver of The reason is that time slowed
the car will down for the officer.
appear station-
ary from the If you watch this scene from the
police officer’s pavement, both will appear to be According to
perspective. moving very fast. Einstein, however,
time varies. As you
accelerate, so time
Let us now replace the car with a light beam. moves more
According slowly. A sec-
to New- ond on Earth
ton, time is not the
is uniform same as a sec-
in the en-
If the police officer moved at a ond anywhere
speed close to that of light, you tire uni- in space.
could see him approach at al- verse. A
most light speed. But when you second on
asked him later, he would say Mars is
that no matter how much he ac- the same
celerated, the light beam still as one on
moved at the usual speed of Earth.
light.

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