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evtldocha
11 months ago

No. The equation does not mean more – but also no less – than the equivalence of mass and (rough)energy.

(Masse is an invariant size and does not change, even if spoken frequently by “rough mass” and “relativistic mass” and this distinction is still found in all kinds of books).

evtldocha
11 months ago
Reply to  Friedrich253

For your comment on a request:

Light has mass. For example, that also says this formula.

This view has also been overtaken for a long time. Photons have no mass, even if they have energy.

evtldocha
11 months ago

No – this is very correct. It is very often misunderstood if one cannot recognize that the formula is valid only for resting masses and resting energies and it is otherwise necessary to expect the relativistic energy which, in addition to the resting energy, also contains a pulse term. In this pulse term, the energy of the restless photons is also present: or different: photons have no rest mass, which is why they move with c, but a pulse in which the energy is present.

teehouse
11 months ago

It mainly means that mass and energy are two phenomena of the same phenomenon.

teehouse
11 months ago
Reply to  Friedrich253

Well, the user over me says something very similar. But that something necessarily has to be bigger than something else, would actually require a disparity and no equation.

hologence
11 months ago

this is just the equation for the rest mass. There’s no talk of movement. In the case of relativeistic kinetic energy

Takumi2007
11 months ago

The answer to the question has already been given by evtldocha.

But why is the statement wrong? Because one cannot give the elements of the formula any orders, or because instead of “light” what else would have written so

This is not true because, for example, photons themselves do not necessarily always move at the speed of light. This applies only in vacuo, but can be slowed down by media, such as water. However, photons do not receive a mass.

“Light speed” is unfortunately one of the unhappy and misleading terms.

Takumi2007
11 months ago
Reply to  Friedrich253

I don’t think it’s the problem. I just have the impression that you’ve just confused two terms here and that’s why you’ve come to an incorrect conclusion.

I’m not sure what you mean. Do you really mean photons or their speed? I don’t suppose the latter, because speed can’t have a mass.

However, I would generally advise you to consider a lecture on the subject, but, depending on the state of knowledge, this could also require further basic knowledge to be acquired before there are too many questions of confusing answers.

alterzapp
11 months ago

Actually, it should only be clear that very small masses can generate very (very) large energies.

alterzapp
11 months ago
Reply to  Friedrich253

Einstein has simply shown with this formula that even in atoms there is an enormous energy. The formula itself was already known before.