Can You Make An Object Pretend It Has Less Mass Than It Does?

“Speed can make objects act as if they have more mass, but can you ever make an object appear to have less mass?”

It’s true that speeding an object up to considerable fractions of the speed of light will make things behave like they are more massive than they do when they’re moving at slower, more human, speeds. But going the other direction is not…

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