Tag: nuclear physics

• Testing the mass-energy relationship

  How do we know the most famous equation in physics — E = mc2 — is actually correct? The answer, of course, involves experiments. It doesn’t matter how brilliant Einstein (or anyone) is, no theory is good if it doesn’t hold up under experimental tests. The relation between mass and rest energy is no different.…

  Matthew R. Francis

  June 15, 2013

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields

  E = mc^2, energy, mass, nuclear physics, relativity