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by whatshisface 517 days ago
If there are many objects moving in many directions, you won't be able to find a reference frame in which the mass of the system is equal to the sum of the rest masses of the objects.
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correct. This is not a contradiction.

A reference frame is definitionally a point from which you would measure an "apartment mass". The rest mass isn't relevant to a reference frame where that mass isn't at rest. This is true at all scales.