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The inertial mass defined in the general theory of relativity has no physical meaning

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Moscow State University. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 163–170, May, 1982.

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Denisov, V.I., Logunov, A.A. The inertial mass defined in the general theory of relativity has no physical meaning. Theor Math Phys 51, 421–426 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01036205

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