e=mc2

[Kamal]

watching a show on nova on how einstein came up with this. brilliant how 3 scientists were laying the bricks on this path that he walked on. e=mc2 is basically energy and mass, connected at the square speed of light. Another brilliant thing I learnt from the show is that light is nothing but electricity and magnetism, which are interwoven like a braid (as electricity move forward in a cable, it creates a little magnetism and as magnetism is propelled along the cable, it creates an electric charge), together traveling at 670 million miles per hour (the speed of light), this results in the creation of light (as proven by james maxwell, under the learnings of michael faraday). Light... is essentially an electromagnetic wave travelling at 670 million miles per hour. How fucking brilliant is that.

Einstein truly said it right, what he learnt about the atomic world, was all thanks to sitting on the shoulders of giants.

LHC, you better have something incredibly ingenious to present.

[Kamal]

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Michio kaku says it brilliantly, typed out, word by word from the show.

e=mc2 shows that every piece of energy in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy... the speed of light for example is about 300 million metres per second, you multiply that by itself, you get 90 quadrillion.... so in other words, what is matter? In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of nothing but mass amounts of energy.

[Kamal]

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and after einstein's paper, physicist no longer look at mass and energy as 2 seperate identities. they are the same fucking thing...... thats just unreal. wow.

[miketpoto]

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lol, you're a nerd.






















I agree though, it is fascinating.

[Kamal]

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Lisa Meitner, the woman who discovered Nuclear Fission.

[Kamal]

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e=mc2 proves how we have come into creation after the big bang. In the first moments of creation, the universe was an immensely dense and an immensely concentrated eruption of energy. As it rushed apart and expanded, huge amounts of energy (or e) were converted into mass (or m). Pure energy became matter, it became the particles, then matter, and them clumped together to form the first stars.

Today, our sun is a huge furnace floating in space and its powered by e=mc2. Calculations prove that 4 million tons of solid mass of the sun disappears and comes out as energy. And not just a little bit of energy, but it enough to light up our entire solar system and makes our solar system glow with heat and light.

At the end of it all, this whole process creates life itself. Eventually, a massive star dies, the debris floats around clusters together, gets pulled into the orbits of other stars and becomes a planet. We humans and the earth we stand on, are made of stardust. We all are a direct product of e=mc2.

God is truly a phenomenal mathematician.

[feather]

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So we're energy slowed down?

[Kamal]

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possibly, the only thing constant in the universe of einstein, is the speed of light.

[88Mariner]

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^ doing forget stupidity. also a universal constant. so says a poster i once saw.

[Lorn]

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^ doing forget stupidity. also a universal constant. so says a poster i once saw.

stupidity=m*mcdonalds consumption

[Nigel Harkness]

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I wish I could have seen that show, that shit intrigues me, hopefully they will rerun it.

[88Mariner]

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if mass is equivalent to energy, how much energy does a 200lb man have pent up in his very existence?

[Jenks]

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the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest - albert einstein

[scifi pi]

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Here's the torrent link to download the show -

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4029...Idea_(HDTV_Rip)

Based on David Bodanis's bestselling book E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, the program explores the lives of the men and women who helped develop the concepts behind each term in the equation: E for energy; m for mass; c for the speed of light; and 2 for "squared," the multiplication of one number by itself.

[day_for_night]

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kamal, have you read 'the elegant universe yet'? i swear i suggested it to you awhile back. if you haven't you need to. it'll get your nerd rocks off like nobody's business.