You ask:
Ok, so can this be 'observed' in reality?
Message 2.
It depends on what you mean by "proven". A brazillion experiments have been performed on this, and it has been verified in all of these. In science, that counts as "proven".
Message 4.
So when a scientist says that E=mc2 has been proven, all he means is that the accuracy of the equation is supported by a great deal of empirical evidence.
Message 6.
This is essentially a prediction of Relativity, and it provides a wonderful way to test the theory. If the description of the way the universe works as developed out of the mathematics of the theory then the theory is confirmed as being a useful description of at least part of our universe.
They tested it, the description holds.
Message 14.
Yes, E = mc2 has been directly verified.
Message 16.
Then why don't you just get to the bloody point? E = mc2 has been verified, and Modulus has even cited an experiment that verified it to a high level of accuracy.
Message 19.
I thought you were requesting information regarding an experiment that verifies E=mc2. I provided you with a description of such an experiment.
Message 23.
It has been experimentally verified so what's the beef!?
Message 26.
How much effort have you actually put into looking up the experiments that verify that E=mc2?
Message 28.
If you mean, has the equation been experimentally confirmed, as in, does the equation correlate with reality as tested? Yes. I have given you an example of an experiment that does this directly.
Message 30.
And it has been verified. You actually asked for an example of an experiment where it was verified -- Modulus provided one such experiment, and now you claim that he was off-topic.
Message 38.
It is tested true every second of every day at every nuclear reactor in the world. None of the billion $ particle accelerators in the world would work at all if this equation was not true.
There are very few equations in science that are better tested than this one...
Message 42.
As stated: experiments have confirmed that the equation accurately describes many parts of the universe.
Message 49.
The way I understand it is that many experiments have been done that have measured the amount of energy and mass before, and the amount of energy and mass after, many energy gain\loss events.
Message 79.
Mass transforms into energy everyday, as has been mentioned countless times in this thread.
Message 80.
THAT is the creation of matter (electron/positron pair) from energy, perfectly obeying e=mc^2. This happens billions of times a day at the particle accelerators around the world.
Message 91.
So, just for the record Heinrik, you are contending that every particle factory in the world doesn't actually work, and every particle physicist in the world is lying, and hiding a huge conspiracy that we have never observed pair creation.
Message 93.
Conversion of energy to mass is happening inside your body all the time.
Message 99.
The equivalence has been experimentally verified in both directions. The conversion of energy to mass is much more difficult because such huge amounts of energy are necessary to create very little mass.
Message 102.
You seem to have doubts that it has been experimentally confirmed. So, if you would be so kind as to answer the question: Would you agree that if we were to measure, e, m, and c and we were to find that e=mc2 that would confirm the equation was accurate?
Message 103.
Now you are also asking can this work backwards? Can energy be converted into mass? The answer is yes...
Message 105.
You are aware that particle accelerators create matter from energy now, yes?
Message 107.
cavediver already did in Message 80 where he linked to this page.
Message 109.
Now Einstein has described a universe where something can have a velocity of zero and still have energy. That is a big claim. So we measured this prediction. It turned out to be true.
Message 113.
One thing you could do is increase the velocity of something. This will increase the amount of energy that something has. If e=mc2 is true, we should find that the mass of the something will also increase. This has been done, incidentally.
Message 115.
Do you agree we can test whether e=mc2 is actually an accurate description of the real world by measuring the real world values of e, m and c and seeing how they are related?
Message 121.
You see it happen all the time, since this is the basis for microwave ovens and laser, such as those in your DVD drive.
Message 128.
It is an incredible amount of energy. And we've measured it, and confirmed that it is an incredible amount of energy.
Message 136.
For those who find themselves incredulous at the amount of energy the equation E=MC^2 says is released when matter is converted into energy...there's your proof, right there.
Message 138.
So, if the application of the formula to the amount of material used up at Hiroshima results in the amount of energy which would be required to do exactly what was done at Hiroshima, (avoiding what was done at Hiroshima to determine what that amount of energy would do cos otherwise we get circular again)then we have an application of the formula where it has been tested in the real world and found to be accurate, something that Heinrik is asking for.
Message 173.
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.
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