One Hundred Years of E=MC2

Eric Ward writes "To mark the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2, NOVA has gone live this month with a Web site that features exclusive content and podcasts from ten of the worlds top physicists. This once-in-a-lifetime gathering of top scientists such as S. James Gates, Jr., Brian Greene, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow simplify what the equation means to our world today and the effect it has had on their careers. NOVA online also details how Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: that mass and energy are one, related by the formula E=mc2. Viewers will also find lesson plans through the award-winning NOVA Teacher's Guide and a special library resource kit."

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What if E = mc^2.0000000001?

[G4from128k]

Einstein's work showed that Newton's equations were a good approximation for low velocities, but not for velocities approaching c. What if Einstein's work is an approximation, too. Perhaps we will discover that the E deviates from mc^2 when temperatures are very high or very low or m is very large or magnetic fields are especially strong.

Newton's 3 laws survived 239 years, I wonder how long Einstein's will last?

Re:Plagiarist?

[Frymaster]

my question is, then, why aren't we celebrating another famous 1905 paper by a. einstein? i am, of course, talking about his work on brownian motion.

einstein was awarded the nobel prize for his brownian paper. relativity, published the same year, was all but ignored.

source:
http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/einsteinBM.ht ml