I have moved to Virginia, near where my brother bought his new townhouse. I am currently looking for a job - a few interviews so far. Family is visiting periodically. My mom is currently here for another week or so. My room is comfortable and larger than my Florida bedroom so I can put up shelves, an entertainment stand, computer, bed and still have room for my moms bags and projects when she comes down.
Well, that's enough with where I live. Mom is going to be helping me with taxes today. She encouraged me to apply at some local stores yesterday. Tomorrow will probably involve a few more applications, although I keep thinking that the best path available to me would be to start my own business. The only problem is that my business-starting-creativity is a little lacking so I'm a bit short on ideas. Oh well. That never stopped me before. :-)
On a completely different topic, I was reading some basic literature on mass, weight, and the speed of light and had a question for anyone who might read this post. As an object's speed reaches the speed of light relative to another observer, the object's mass (let us say the object is a space ship) increases. A big problem with acceleration at near-light speeds is that the acceleration provided by rocket fuels is not related to mass. Nuclear powered acceleration IS related to mass though. My question on e=mc^2, does the mass in that equation equal the intrinsic 'prime mass' of an object at rest relative to another object, or does the mass equal the updated mass at the near-light speeds?
If we were to chain a nuclear reactor to an stationary object accelerate a nuclear reactor to near light speeds as it circled... let us say the new mass is 1000 times what it would be at rest. If we manage to pipe the output energy from the nuclear reactor into our power grids, do we have a 1000 times more energy than the NR produces at rest? As a thought experiment - what do you think the result would be?
