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Is Einsteinian relativity congruent with thermodynamics?

Asked by s321scba (67points) April 25th, 2011

Einstein predicted that a lot of properties, sizes, time, magnitudes, etc. are reletive to the speed of light, aren’t many parts of warm (above 0 kelvin) materials moving at speeds sufficient for them to experience magnified reletivistic effects? when applied does modern thermodynamic theory and derivitive theories of Einstein’s works agree?

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From what I can tell thermodynamics does not have any conflicts with relativity.
Relativity and Quantum physics are the classic disconnect, where relativity rules at large distances (solar system size) and quantum physics at small distances (sub-atomic). It takes some serious mathematical wrenching (string theory) to get them to meet.

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where’s the increase in mass with temperature

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