Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
by tardedmeme on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:33PM
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That is incorrect. Photons have mass. They have no rest mass. They also cannot rest, so you might wonder how relevant that is.
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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
by mr_mitm on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:41PM
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The concepts of rest mass and relativistic mass are considered outdated. In modern physics, "mass" means what they meant by "rest mass".
Here some indication I'm not making this up: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2465/when-and-why-di...
In any case, I never use those concepts, and I know no professional particle physicist that does. By "mass", I mean rest mass.
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
by tardedmeme on Sunday May 17, 2026 @04:39PM
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When you put a photon in a stationary box, the "relativistic mass" of the photon becomes part of the "rest mass" of the photon-box system. You can't ignore it.