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Author Topic:   Misconceptions of E=MC^2
Woodsy
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Message 93 of 243 (452370)
01-30-2008 7:51 AM
Reply to: Message 85 by pelican
01-30-2008 6:47 AM


In other words if mass can produce energy then energy can produce mass. This was the original idea of Einsteins theory of everything.
However, this formula has never been tested. It was my contention that this half of the equasion has been misunderstood in this forum.
Conversion of energy to mass is happening inside your body all the time. Part of you is the nuclide Potassium-40, which is radioactive. Just after it decays, an energetic gamma-ray (energy) is emitted. Sometimes, when the gamma-ray encounters a nucleus, part of its energy is converted to a pair of particles (electron and positron) which possess mass. This is a very well-known nuisance in gamma-ray spectrometry.
It is unfortunate that you have taken hold of an erroneous notion. Now you have an opportunity to relinquish it and carry on without it.

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Woodsy
Member (Idle past 3403 days)
Posts: 301
From: Burlington, Canada
Joined: 08-30-2006


Message 173 of 243 (453577)
02-03-2008 9:45 AM
Reply to: Message 170 by pelican
02-03-2008 1:28 AM


Re: E=mc^2 = cycle of life?
When the equasion becomes a physical reaction (eg.nuclear)then logically, all permetations of e=mc^2 are capable of a physical reaction, although we do not have the technology to test them.
No matter how you rearrange the equation, it states exactly the same thing. What it says has been exhaustively tested and found to be correct.
hints: equasion should be equation; permetations should be permutations.
Through the learning experience of this thread I had an idea that all the permetations of e=mc^2 are cyclical in nature. Could they be joined together in a continuous circle reacting one upon the other, thus creating a cyclical equasion that is the theory of everything? The cycle of life.
See above.
This equation is not a "theory of everything", it just relates energy and mass. Mystical claptrap is not appropriate.

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