September 28, 2005

My my, doesn't the time fly Happy centenary!
posted by polychrome 19 years ago
  • Wow. One of the most momentous ideas in history, and no comments? The nascent spark that led to that which could destroy us. And what could save us-maybe. It doesn't seem quite right to say Happy Centenary, but my hat's off to Albert.
  • My hat's off to Albert kamus.
  • tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock relatively speaking, of course!
  • thanks anyway, polychrome, I appreciated the post.
  • K0 - K1 = 1/2 L/c2 v2 Thanks also to Bashi for the new superscript and subscript tags.
  • I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that Newtonian gravitational theory doesn't work on Mercury unless relative mass is used. Whoever posted that comment (in another thread, I forget which), thanks a bunch, dude. Like woah.
  • Glad you liked it; not an anniversary that deserved to go by unnoticed I thought.
  • goetter, is that the equation that is supposedly more "accurate" than e=mc2? I remember reading something to the effect of, the famous equation that we're all familiar with was actually chosen as equation posterboy for its dramatic simplicity: that while true in an important sense, it applies only for a body at rest. But I could be wrong.
  • Well obviously I guessed wrong on the superscript tag and I pressed post instead of preview. Wow.I just realized: it finally happened. I'm fifty and that was it: the very moment that you begin your long and bitter mental decline. Fifty- that's the age. Enjoy what little time you have.
  • It's the equation that actually appeared in the paper (or rather, the translation of the paper as posted. The original German [PDF] uses a slightly different notation. See the closing footnotes of the translation). E = mc2 summarizes a subsequent statement in the paper, but never appears in the paper itself. The tags that you want are SUP and SUB. My fault for not naming them.
  • But remember, it's not Einstein's equation. That's a fabrication of the Jew-controlled media. *scrubs browser cache with wire brush and bleach*
  • Those sneaky Jews. I'd be surprised if Al Gore didn't have something to do with it too! pass the bleach when you're done
  • Gotter, that link: wow. Just wow. Asimov's New Guide to Science, in the appendix there is a secton on Relativity which steps through the mathematics going from the Michelson-Morley experiment to the Fitzgerald equation to Einstein's working of the Lorentz equation into M'=M+e/c2 which leads naturally into e=MC2. Great reading. If you're interested in science but haven't looked at Asimov's New Guide to Science, I highly recommend taking a look. It is quite accessable.