E=mc2 Help?

Question

E=mc2 means Mass x Speed o' light = Energy
Does that mean if you go faster than the speed of light you turn into energy?
If not please explain what it does mean and why.
and if it does please explain why

thats what I'm asking but why cant they go faster
Why would they turn into energy

But what about conservation of mass and energy??
if you start trading matter for mass and back and forth like that wouldn't everything become unstable

Then I refuse to believe Einstein I refuse to believe that in the future we will a have to travel TEN YEARS! to the center of the galaxy

Answer 1

Einstein stole the formula from an Italian mathemetician whom he worked for at the time, and thus has no sense to it since Einstein didn't think it up..

The truth is you are absolutely correct!! Einstein junkys jumped the gun and sadly had little knowledge of physics at the time and when they made Einschwine a super star they forgot that the forumal would one day be proven to be only a PART of a work in progress and nothing more!!

Starting with the Greeks and then the Italians and Arabs, mathematics nad physics EVOLVED with a lot of help from a lot of people..

Einsteins theory of relativity was actually the theory being worked on by many others and unlike Einstein many of the others contributed to what is actually known today, and recently applied in fact to acquire images of Mars, which is that Einstein made no account for the fact matter is made of matter. and is not a constant in itself.. his theory is therefore IRRELIVANT IN SCIENCE as it is far too obvious and simplistic.

And Eri.. wrong AGAIN!! Mass is certianly NOT stable!! not in the forms we need to send mass at ANY speed, let alone the speed of light. For example when you make a mobile phone call is the mass of the data transmitted STABLE?? if so, why do we need transponded (regeneration) stations and digital technology to even have such technology??? You even said before, he was repsonsible for GPRS... HOW????

Einsteins theory made no account for this.. and is IRRELIVANT!!

Answer 2

It means that mass and energy are different forms of the same thing.... a small amount of matter contains a huge amount of energy. You can't go as fast as light because you have mass. Mass defies the conservation law when its accelerated to relativistic speeds (that is speeds which are a significant fraction of the speed of light). The faster you go, the more your mass increases, so that as you near the speed of light, your mass becomes almost infinite. The more massive you are, the more energy it takes to accelerate you. There isn't enough energy in the universe to accelerate you (or anything with mass) to the speed of light. Star Trek LIED!

Answer 3

That is an equation to figure how much energy is realeased when fission or fusion occurs.
You take the mass that was converted to energy and multiply it by the speed of light squared.
So that means in this equation, the speed of light squared is just a number.
And nothing other than waves can go the speed of light. Just physically impossible.

Answer 4

e=energy required to propel an object
m=mass of an object
c=speed of light in a vacuum

This equation is part of einstein's theory of relativity that states that the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the greater its mass. At the speed of light, the object's mass would become infinite. If you can somehow manage to pass the speed of light, the inverse is true. The farther you go past the speed of light, the lower your mass would become.

Answer 5

what's up with everybody saying you can't go faster than the speed of light? Certain particles like tachyons exceed the speed of light, and for it, the speed of light is a minimum barrier. There is also the matter of quantum entanglement, which may (I'm not sure) allow for electrons to go faster than the speed of light.
Anyways, to answer ur question: it's hard to say what will happen if you travel faster than the speed of light. However, there is the case where matter can somehow "turn into" energy--LOTS of energy. This seems to happen, if I remember correctly, near the sun, which allow for massive amounts of energy to stream from the star. Tachyons are not energy; they're particles. So going faster than the speed of light does not necessarily mean that you're going to "turn into" energy. The equation is simply a theoretical matter that calculates how much energy is produced when mass can, in fact, become energy. Remember the fundamental rule: mass = another form of energy, one that is very hard to convert into the form of energy we think of conventionally as measured in Joules.

Answer 6

No. You can't go faster than the speed of light. It means that mass and energy are interchangable - mass can be turned into energy. You see that every day when you drive your car, or look at the sun. Both processes are turning mass (fuel) into energy.

This is not a spontaneous conversion. Mass is stable.

Answer 7

You have a variety of answers here (some of which are pretty wacky!) but if you have time and really want to get a good beginning understanding, there is a very good video done by NOVA that has been shown on tv quite a few times. It is probably available at your local library - the name of it is "Einstein's Big Idea" and it will explain how he thought up his idea and why we think it is correct. It is based on a book by David Bodanis called "E=mc2"

Good luck!

Answer 8

I thought one could not go faster than the speed of light.