MASS, ENERGY AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT

MASS, ENERGY AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT September 28, 2005

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A day late I know – but that’s time for you.

I knew Albert Einstein published his famous equation in 1905, but Kevin Drum, at Washington Monthly knew that this event occurred yesterday. Hey, given the relativity involved here it might have been today our time. Kevin also has the paper, translated in English.

Einstein, much like Newton, seemed to have solved the problems working for the most part on his own. Once one person figures out how to do something, others can follow. Problems such as injustice and the environmental crisis facing the globe, imperilling we are told life on earth, requires collective problem solving, and so is somehat intractable, if not impossible, and so we delay, and by delaying the problems become more serious.

Al is not unknown to the search engines. There is, for example, the dog school of mathematics explaining special relativity for sixth graders – whoever they are.