Again you choose to leave out essential parts of the quote and since you read the quote, why is that?
“.. . ..he concluded that whenever an object emits an amount of energy L of any type, its mass diminishes by L/c2, so that the mass of an object is a measure of how much energy it contains.” (from my quote)
“And again, “the mass of an object is a measure of how much energy it contains.” Again E=M, elegant really : )”
(your quote)
Nothing elegant about what you’ve done, but the question is why? Why try to make the physicist say something he did not?
“That is in complete agreement : )”
Not when you leave out part of the equation. All the fellow was saying was that an equivalent to C squared could be used not that it could be ignored.
But you know that, don’t you?
So the question is: Why?
Because they weren't pertinent.
“.. . ..he concluded that whenever an object emits an amount of energy L of any type, its mass diminishes by L/c2, so that ” (from my quote)
I quoted "the mass of an object is a measure of how much energy it contains." Which is correct and in complete agreement with my E=M statement. Now if that body is radiating as the first part of the statement says then certainly it is losing mass. Energy is mass.
Not when you leave out part of the equation. All the fellow was saying was that an equivalent to C squared could be used not that it could be ignored.
Not ignored at all. It simply isn't relevant to our discussion. If you were accelerating something to relativistic speeds or building an Atom Bomb then certainly it would be relative. All I did was convert C2 to 1 speed of light unit squared which is 12 which is 1. Hence E=M, one unit of mass = one unit of energy.
But you know that, don’t you? So the question is: Why?
If I type slower will it help? : ) (laugh please) Math is the use of symbols to communicate much like a picture is worth a thousand words the equation E=MC2 conveys an awfully lot of information. The C2 portion is not germane to the concept that Mass is Energy, they are equivalent. It is only when you try and actually figure out how much energy is in one gram of matter that you need to use C2. Which by the way is a whole bunch of energy any which way to want to figure it : )