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One Hundred Years of E=MC2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-still-don't-get-it dept.

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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  1. Was it Einsteins wife? by John+Seminal · · Score: 0, Troll
    I have heard over and over and over again, that Einsteins wife is more responsible for his work than Einstein is. I wonder if any other ./'ers have heard the same?

    While we are at giving credit where it is due, why not give Nikola Tesla credit for his work with electricity.

    The USA has a bad habit of stealing technology and breakthroughs from other countries and then saying they invented it. There is no way that Benjamin Franklin invented everything from bifocal eyeglasses to a furnace, and still had time to fly kites and discover electricity.

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    Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."

  2. Re:2 years too late by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Troll
    De Pretto was attempting to deal with the results of the Michelson -Morley experiment which seemed to disprove the existence of the aether. The fact that it had been decades since Michaelson-Morley's experiment before De Pretto's derivation of E=mc^2 and then only another 2 years before Einstein's theory of relativity seems pretty convincing that De Pretto's derivation was seminal. This is particularly convincing given the fact that it is known Einstein was informed of De Pretto's work well before Einstein's paper on special relativity was published and possibly before he had begun writing it.

    Einstein's failure to cite other scientists for that work was simply unethical.

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