Excellent explanation of Einstein's derivation of relativity and the relation between energy and mass.
1 posted on
10/01/2005 8:10:21 PM PDT by
GummyIII
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To: PatrickHenry
To: GummyIII
I'm going to respond to this solely for the purpose of finding this tomorrow morning.
I have absolutely no intention of revisiting the theory of relativity approximately 15 minutes before I'm hitting the mattress.
4 posted on
10/01/2005 8:17:57 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: GummyIII
6 posted on
10/01/2005 8:19:47 PM PDT by
Dark Skies
("The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow." -- Oswald Chambers)
To: GummyIII
When you twist up a spring, it gets heavier. Cool.
7 posted on
10/01/2005 8:20:16 PM PDT by
The Red Zone
(Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
To: GummyIII
My wife, a lawyer, just put me the question "Why is Enstein so famous?" And I'm still trying to figure out where to start from....
8 posted on
10/01/2005 8:20:23 PM PDT by
voletti
(For God, Prez and country....)
To: GummyIII
This isn't true. When you drive your car, E = mc² is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula. When you use your MP3 player, E = mc² is at work. As the player drains the battery to produce energy in the form of sound waves, it does so by converting some of the battery's mass into energy, as dictated by Einstein's formula.
I don't believe this is true.
Those are examples of energy changing form - from chemical to kinetic and from stored electrical to sound energy.
The energies are in addition to the rest state energy of e=mc^2 no matter to energy conversion required. If he wanted an every day example he could have used glowing dials in a tritium watch or a Geiger counter finding background radiation in a concrete building.
On the other hand, the guy is a professor of physics so maybe I am missing something.
10 posted on
10/01/2005 8:21:11 PM PDT by
gondramB
( We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.)
To: GummyIII
To: GummyIII
Did you try to place it in the editorial sidebar?
14 posted on
10/01/2005 8:28:41 PM PDT by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: GummyIII
WTF
18 posted on
10/01/2005 8:31:51 PM PDT by
Old Seadog
(Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
To: GummyIII
Oops. I thought this was the baseball thread discussing David Eckstein. Pardon me.
20 posted on
10/01/2005 8:35:42 PM PDT by
speedy
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25 posted on
10/01/2005 8:54:01 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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To: GummyIII
Did you know Einstein was a Zionist?
He studied Physical Zcience.
32 posted on
10/01/2005 9:18:07 PM PDT by
fat city
("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
To: GummyIII
33 posted on
10/01/2005 9:19:51 PM PDT by
HighWheeler
("There is nothing worse than self-deception where the deceiver is always with you." - Randi)
To: GummyIII
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity
Albert Einstein
34 posted on
10/01/2005 9:21:33 PM PDT by
laotzu
To: GummyIII
To: GummyIII
38 posted on
10/01/2005 9:48:40 PM PDT by
texas booster
(Bless the legal immigrants!)
To: GummyIII
Yet for all its symbolic worth, the equation's intimate presence in everyday life goes largely unnoticed. There is nothing you can do, not a move you can make, not a thought you can have, that doesn't tap directly into E = mc². Einstein's equation is constantly at work, providing an unseen hand that shapes the world into its familiar form.Perspectives like this drive me crazy.
39 posted on
10/01/2005 9:58:06 PM PDT by
Psycho_Bunny
(If you snit at the hand that feeds you, you're probably a leftist.)
To: GummyIII
To: GummyIII; All
How about when plants grow? Light energy (Sun) gets transformed into mass (plant). Cool.
To: GummyIII
This explains why there is more sound energy in heavy metal rock.
54 posted on
10/02/2005 1:09:51 AM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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