But is it art?

[cheshirecat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...le-or-art.html

About time too

[swbarnett]

Wether or not it's art the artist is obviously not a physicist

The display theme is 'The Conservation of Mass', with the displays highlighting the fact that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

This is completely wrong. Matter is created and destroyed all the time. It is energy that cannot be created or destroyed.

[crazyhorse]

Interesting thing to do with a Honda

[doc]

"But is it art "


Well more like Graffiti really.

[grusomhat]

Wether or not it's art the artist is obviously not a physicist



This is completely wrong. Matter is created and destroyed all the time. It is energy that cannot be created or destroyed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass

[pzkpfw]

"The Fireblade is such an iconic machine worldwide, with Honda also being renowned for their innovation, so this machine and working with Honda was the only way I really wanted to go," said Bean.

I think I can guess how he got the bikes...

[one fast tl1ooo]

no thats not art..

[EJK]

It's a fukn doodle compared to MV Agusta I rekon.


Sorry Honda fans.

[imdying]

Hardly... much purer than the overly fussy (and more than a little pretentious) shapes that make up (the now tired looking) the F4. Can't believe how poor MVs efforts to tart it up again this year were.

[cheshirecat]

Hardly... much purer than the overly fussy (and more than a little pretentious) shapes that make up (the now tired looking) the F4. Can't believe how poor MVs efforts to tart it up again this year were.

The only MV that I really remember like it was yesterday was the 750 pre America, especially when it started up - sounded like the worlds most sophisticated gravel crusher and my old flared jeans being pinned back by the exhaust blast.

[crazzed]

first usefull thing ive seen a honda do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avgas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass

works fine until we consider the beginning of all mass, and anti-matter.
But essentially without these 2 exceptions mass is conserved.

[sinfull]

I went to mass once !

[NONONO]

Is it possible to "conserve" mass?
Load of Damien Hurst bollocks.

[swbarnett]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass

The idea that matter (ie mass) cannot be created or destroyed is one that pre-dates relativity. Yes, in a closed system with no quantum affects, mass will be conserved. However, as a general principle it is wrong. The ammount of mass in the universe is not constant. It is energy that is conserved, not mass. This is a tenet of Albert Einstein, illustrated by the famous equation "E=MC2".

For example matter is destroyed to release the energy of a nuclear explosion. Also, when a body accelerates it's mass increases. At the speed of light it's mass becomes infinite. This is why the speed of light is an absolute limit for anythint that has mass.

The article you sited also has some factual errors. i.e:

The reason for this is that relativistic equations show that even "massless" particles such as photons still add mass and energy to closed systems, allowing mass (though not matter) to be conserved in all processes where energy does not escape the system.

A massless particle cannot add mass to the system.