Is Mass Quantized?

Is mass is quantized or not because when i differentiated the Einstein equation m=m/1-(v*v/c*c) with time then i got different mass in arbitrary manner of regular increase in velocites?
- adarshsingh (age 21)
india bhopal madhya pradesh

I think your approach to test this hypothesis is not very rigorous. The formula that you are referring to is from the special theory of relativity and you are differentiating the relativistic inertial mass with respect to time. So first thing to note is that you already assumed that the mass is continuous, because differentiation is an operation on continuous functions. Differentiation is illegitimate otherwise. Discretization is in general a quantum mechanics concept, whereas special relativity is in a sense still classical, but there is of course a quantum version of it, namely quantum field theory, including quantumelectrodynamics. And lastly, the relativistic inertial mass is usually not referred to as "mass" in modern discuussions. Instead usually the invariant rest mass is used along with the γ factor in the energy-momentum formulas.

I think the following would summarize the paradigms:

	Big	Small
Slow	Classical Mechanics	Quantum Mechanics
Fast	Special relativity	Quantum electrodynamics

Tunc

(published on 03/19/2015)