It’s All Relative, ‘Till Now … E=mc2 Proven :: Oblate Spheroid

by Edmund Jenks | November 21, 2008 at 09:16 am

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People walk past a giant sculpture featuring Albert Einstein's formula "E=mc2" in front of Berlin's Altes Museum in 2006. It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists. Image Credit: AFP/File/John Macdougall

It’s Was All Relative, ‘Till Now … E=mc2 Proven

The Albert Einstein Special Theory of Relativity which he hypothesized over one century ago, was suspected as being correct but was never totally proven until now.

In a study published in the US Journal Science, a brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms … which proves the equation Einstein laid down back in 1903.

The Albert Einstein Memorial with its 21 foot bronze statue was dedicated in 1979. It is across the street from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Constitution Avenue. A star map at Einstein's feet is embedded with more than 2,700 metal studs representing the positions of the sun, moon, planets and stars on April 22, 1979 when the memorial was dedicated. In Einstein's left hand is a paper with mathematical equations summarizing three of his most important scientific contributions including the theory of relativity. Image Credit: VisitingDC.com

This excerpted and edited from AFP -

e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right

AFP - Thu Nov 20, 6:56 pm ET

It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
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According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.


The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?

The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.

In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.

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amyjudd

Wow, I think most of us had just resigned ourselves to the fact that it didn't actually mean anything... :)

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Johnny Summerton

Gosh, my head hurts after that. Clearly I'm not part of the "brainpower consortium" (what a fabulous name).

Now having proclaimed my utter ignorance, am I still allowed to say "great post"?


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jordan

This gives me the warm fuzzies.

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Fairbanks

Isn't that convenient.  Computer model proves what was already assumed yet once more. 

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Monte

Great post. He was ahead of his times, WAY ahead. It would be hard to imagine what he could of done if he had had a computer.

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Fairbanks

Got his book, 'The Meaning of Relativity.'  Scary, they didn't know about other galaxies and had no idea of the size of the universe.  He invented the photon, which we call a particle even though it isn't.  He didn't need a computer, would have slowed him down. 

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moonwolf

My hero, proven right again!

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SOLARLIFE

E=mc², a great book from Berkley physics available, explaining Einsteins theory in a funny way.....you travel to mars you come back younger than your friends, or your friends got older than you ?

Good science post

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Fairbanks

1905 was a big year for Einstein. 

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rumana husain

it also proves that some scientist or the other persevered for all those 103 years. great job, great post.

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Patrick Price

Great piece, inspiring isn't it.

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Paschen

It is great news and Many in science are welcoming this with open arms. This one single equation has revolutionized an area and a world and made a lot of waves by a man that started out to be a failure in the eyes of the academic world of his time. Thank you for this post.


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