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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Relativity/Special_Relativity_(Crowell)/09%3A_Flux/9.02%3A_The_Stress-Energy_Tensor
      A particle such as an electron has a charge, but it also has a mass. We can’t define a relativistic mass flux because flux is defined by addition, but mass isn’t additive in relativity. Mass-energy is...A particle such as an electron has a charge, but it also has a mass. We can’t define a relativistic mass flux because flux is defined by addition, but mass isn’t additive in relativity. Mass-energy is additive, but unlike charge it isn’t an invariant. Mass-energy is part of the energy-momentum four vector. We then have sixteen different fluxes we can define.

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