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| by William Atkins | |
| Sunday, 23 November 2008 | |
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Science DiscussionsBack in the 1900s, German-American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein hypothesized that mass could be converted into energy, and vice versa, and that its equation was E = mc2. He published his formula (in a slightly different form than what we are used to) in 1905 within the paper "Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?”. (pdf file) That is, any mass has a particular energy value associated with it, or energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light (c), in a vacuum, squared (2). According to the United Press International (UPI) article “Scientists confirm Einstein's e=mc2,” the German newspaper Deutsche Wells reported on Friday, November 21, 2008 that Laurent Lellouch lead a team of French, German, and Hungarian scientists in confirming the famous equation. They used the supercomputers at the National Center for Scientific Research (NCRS), or Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Paris, France. The NCRS press release stated of the Einstein equation, "Until now, this has been a hypothesis.” [Deutsche Wells] According to the API article, “France's National Center for Scientific Research said the computations the scientists worked out involved envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice....” Page two delves a little bit into the life of Dr. Einstein and the Deutsche Wells article that originally ran the announcement. |
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