What is your learned opinion of this formula and the included interpretation?

Question

e=mc2
This formula proposes that when a body has a mass (measured at rest), it has a certain (very large) amount of energy associated with this mass. This is opposed to the Newtonian mechanics, in which a massive body at rest has no kinetic energy, and may or may not have other (relatively small) amounts of internal stored energy (such as chemical energy or thermal energy), in addition to any potential energy it may have from its position in a field of force. That is why a body's rest mass, in Einstein's theory, is often called the rest energy of the body. The E of the formula can be seen as the total energy of the body, which is proportional to the mass of the body.

Conversely, a single photon travelling in empty space cannot be considered to have an effective mass, m, according to the above equation. The reason is that such a photon cannot be measured in any way to be at "rest" and the formula above applies only to single particles when they are at rest, and also systems at rest (i.e., systems when seen from their center of mass frame). Individual photons are generally considered to be "massless," (that is, they have no rest mass or invariant mass) even though they have varying amounts of energy and relativistic mass. Systems of two or more photons moving in different directions (as for example from an electron-positron anihilation) will have an invariant mass, and the above equation will then apply to them, as a system, if the invariant mass is used.

See rest at:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/e=mc%c2%b2...

Yes, I am in the right section. This is the Religion and Spirituality section, is it not? Welcome to the world of God.

Answer 1

Are you in the right section bub?

Answer 2

The amount of stored energy in a mass can only be accurately measured when that mass is in motion, and at what speed do you measure it? One mile an hour? One hundred and eight six thousand miles an hour? And even then you can not measure it because the mass uses up the stored energy in achieving the desired speed, and besides there is always more stored energy as long as the mass is large enough to measure, that is before it disintegrates because of the enormous speed it is travailing.

Answer 3

my learned opinon is that you should have put this in the physics section instead of religion