论文标题
基本物理学中有普遍的质量概念吗？
Is there a universal concept of mass in fundamental physics?
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论文摘要
17世纪，牛顿将质量概念作为数学抽象和物理学的统一原则，并在18世纪末通过卡文迪许以太阳系规模进行了校准。在19世纪，这个概念足以解释从微观到太阳系的各个尺度上的广泛物理过程。但是在20世纪，试图将该范围向上扩展到银河量表，然后向下向下原子颗粒，这导致了越来越多的困难。对爱因斯坦和迪拉克的质量概念进行修改并没有阻止这些困难。在本文中，我问一个问题，可以通过进一步修改定义来克服这些困难，还是质量的概念是不可避免的本地（太阳系量表）而不是全球概念？
The concept of mass was introduced as a mathematical abstraction and unifying principle in physics by Newton in the 17th century, and calibrated on a Solar System scale by Cavendish at the end of the 18th century. In the 19th century, this concept proved adequate to explain a vast range of physical processes on all scales from the microscopic to the Solar System. But in the 20th century, attempts to extend this range upwards to the galactic scale, and downwards to subatomic particles, have led to increasing difficulties. Modifications to the concept of mass by Einstein and Dirac have not prevented these difficulties. In this paper, I ask the question, can these difficulties be overcome by further modification of the definitions, or is the concept of mass an unavoidably local (Solar System scale) rather than global concept?
