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David

10-05-2008 03:55 PM

Energy and Mass

The energy in any body with mass is equal to that body's mass times the square of the speed of light.

This is an ENORMOUS number.

All mass has energy . . . & all energy has mass. Every second, the Earth is hit by 4.5 pounds of sunlight.

E = mc^2

strandinthewind

10-05-2008 04:25 PM

"relativistic mass"

explains more than a little :shrug:

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