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The history and future of physics changed about 80 years ago, when a young Swiss patent clerk named Albert Einstein quietly but firmly showed a multitude of chagrined and chastened physicists the direction they would have to take in order to achieve the necessary modification of the great natural laws of physics, which had somehow to be accomplished. The single hypothesis Einstein proposed was simple. To wit, "Let us take the basic assumption that the measured …

…At a critical limit, all energy applied is converted into mass. In other words, the constantly increasing amount of energy is transformed into matter, thus adding mass. In order to accelerate an electron to the speed of light it would require all of the energy in the universe, so it needs infinite energy. It would then have more mass than the universe, so it would have infinite mass. Infinite mass would result in infinite inertia.