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Old 10-09-2009, 01:13 AM
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Originally Posted by JBL GUY View Post
electrons traveling something like about 0.30 (About 1/3) the speed of light.

The greater the high voltage the faster the electrons will travel.
Heard it said that that is fast enough for Einstein's theory of relativity to make the electrons gain a little extra mass. This theory says something to the effect that as something made of regular matter tries to go near as fast as the speed of light, it gets more massive.

So there's some science happening in the boob tube...
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