speed of light related to mass.

Subject: speed of light related to mass.

Date: Mon Oct 7 14:33:48 1996
Posted by: Jason Hill
Grade level: 10-12
School/Organization: Hants East Rural High School (HERH)
City: Lantz State/Province: Nova Scotia
Country: Canada
Area of science: Physics
Message ID: 844716828.Ph

Message:

I read in my physics book the following:
"As the speed of an object increases, the mass will also
increase."  Does this mean that at the speed of light, the
highest speed reachable, that that object will have an
infinite mass?  Or will that object simply cease to exist
in three dimensional form?

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