He also believed that those experiments confirmed the assumption of Wien, that there is no " real " mechanical mass, but only the " apparent " electromagnetic mass, or in other words, the mass of all bodies is of electromagnetic origin.
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Kaufmann noticed that the observed increase cannot be explained by this formula, so he separated the measured " total mass " into a " mechanical ( true ) mass " and an " electromagnetic ( apparent ) mass ", the mechanical mass being considerably greater than the electromagnetic one.