E=mc² is wrong? - Sixty Symbols
It's the most famous science equation in history... but E=mc² is not technically correct. More physics at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
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So, well, the simple version is just to tell you what the terms in the equation meanwhich is that E means energy, and that's equal to m, mass, times c,the speed of light, squared.Energy can be measured in joules, mass of a particle could be measured in kilograms.so if you've going to relate them, you have to relate them with some factorand the factor that does it is this...square of the speed of light.Taken at face value, it means that energy is equivalent to massso that if you were to look at Newton's laws of motion and say that masses attractthis now implies that energy is attracted by another mass.So, if a light wave with energy goes near a planet or the sun, it's actually bent by itbecause it's attracted. So it's saying that energy is equivalent to mass.The consequence of it...
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So, well, the simple version is just to tell you what the terms in the equation meanwhich is that E means energy, and that's equal to m, mass, times c,the speed of light, squared.Energy can be measured in joules, mass of a particle could be measured in kilograms.so if you've going to relate them, you have to relate them with some factorand the factor that does it is this...square of the speed of light.Taken at face value, it means that energy is equivalent to massso that if you were to look at Newton's laws of motion and say that masses attractthis now implies that energy is attracted by another mass.So, if a light wave with energy goes near a planet or the sun, it's actually bent by itbecause it's attracted. So it's saying that energy is equivalent to mass.The consequence of it...
