E=mc2

[St Germain]

What is the evidence that this formula is correct, how has it been verified, by whom, where and when. Is it still considered valid?

[Epsilon=One]

What is the evidence that this formula is correct, how has it been verified, by whom, where and when. Is it still considered valid?

It basically states that there is a hell of a lot of energy in mass. Considering the political status of the world, it seems that a lot of persons believe it remains valid.

To paraphrase Feynman (too lazy to locate quote), there is enough energy in a demitasse of coffee to boil all the oceans from the Earth.

A more interesting question or two is: How did all that energy get into the atom? And, What is holding it there?

Answering the above questions without resorting to metaphysics flies in the face of modern, contrived physical theory.

[chrisforbes]

Sorry I checked my book shelf I must have given it away to one of my freinds, I was going to quote this but buy the book "Einstien for beginners"

[RMatarainen]

A Hypothesis for what it is worth.:confused:

Mass appears to have three dimensions but in reality the third dimension is caused by the velocity of the expansion of the universe; so matter is only two dimensional and could explain why Energy equals Mass times the speed of light squared. Basically, the Mass is already bounded energy because of the Lorentz tranformation and by a manipulation of one of the bounded dimensional scalars we can cause a vector release of the bounded energy.