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Why energy is relative?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

To what? If you are referring to relation of MASS and energy (special relativity, initially proposed by Einstein), energy is relative to mass because the more mass an (arbitrary) object the more energy it contains. That is the very simplest explanation of it. Although the theory of relativity encompasses a lot more, complex ideas, such as time dilution. Google it (the theory of special relativity) to find out more.

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