Sorry typo y'all! It's J.J. Thomson, not J.J. Thompson. Also note: everyone on this list had a hand in developing and promoting the idea of mass-energy equivalence, whether they discovered the exact formula or not. Other notable mentions who contributed to the idea's progression include the German physicists Max Abraham and Wilhem Wein, Italian physicist Olinto de Pretto, and Austrian physicist Fritz Hasenöhrl.
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The whole 4/3 factor of electromagnetic rest mass problem is an amazing chapter in the development of relativity.
2 months ago | 17
Veritasium released a video about Quantum Mechanics which contains a really interesting experiment and saying that light take all possible paths and I think you really should talk about it
2 months ago | 0
To be fair, the dimensionality of the equation had probably been known for more than 200 years, so it's likely that others had thought of it before.
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I always thought it was Minkowski that was the first to frame the equation in that form. Einstein had previously written it as M= E over C squared.
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Finish the equation ,leaving out the most important part about momentum . Post the entire version of it .
2 months ago | 0
Did Einstein "copy" it or did he come up with it on his own? Did he or Poincare claim either way?
2 months ago | 1
i thought einstein only disrespected his wife (or even wives), but i guess he also disrespected scientists from his own field of study.
2 months ago | 3
Dialect
Who was the first individual to explicitly write down E = mc^2 in its modern form, consequently implying mass-energy equivalency?
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