# What happens to the momentum of a moving mass converted to energy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 29, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-to-the-momentum-of-a-moving-mass-converted-to-energy/458114 "2008-07-29T18:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-to-the-momentum-of-a-moving-mass-converted-to-energy/458114/41 "2008-08-01T09:26:49Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] It is entirely accurate to state that _Homo sapiens_, and indeed all Great Apes, as well as modern Old World and New World monkey species, are descended from the group of antecedent monkeys. [/QUOTE] All right, I’ll concede that it’s not inaccurate, though I think it’s both misleadingly incomplete and rather too much lumping and not enough splitting. I should probably apologize for going off on this tangent too much when the main thrust of the thread is completely unrelated anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-to-the-momentum-of-a-moving-mass-converted-to-energy/458114/42 "2008-08-01T15:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=Yumblie] Good grief, I didn’t mean for this to be a discussion of mass, momentum, and monkeys. Let’s get back on track here… [/QUOTE] [dirk gently]I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things…[/dirk gently] Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-to-the-momentum-of-a-moving-mass-converted-to-energy/458114.md?page=2)