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THEBats
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Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct.
#148722 - 11/21/08 11:59 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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PARIS (AFP) – It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.
According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.
The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?
The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.
In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.
The e=mc2 formula shows that mass can be converted into energy, and energy can be converted into mass.
By showing how much energy would be released if a certain amount of mass were to be converted into energy, the equation has been used many times, most famously as the inspirational basis for building atomic weapons.
But resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles -- in equations called quantum chromodynamics -- has been fiendishly difficult.
"Until now, this has been a hypothesis," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said proudly in a press release.
"It has now been corroborated for the first time."
For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/sc_afp/sciencephysicseinstein_081120235605
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you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
Edited by THEBats (11/21/08 11:59 AM)
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: THEBats]
#148739 - 11/21/08 12:05 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Justice_Fish
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: ltd]
#148741 - 11/21/08 12:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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we'll be travelling in time in less than 25 years I say
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THEBats
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: Justice_Fish]
#148744 - 11/21/08 12:09 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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doubt it. still very exciting stuff.
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you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
Edited by THEBats (11/21/08 12:10 PM)
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: THEBats]
#148759 - 11/21/08 12:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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anyone ever get hi and think that aliens are just ourselves in time travel from the future?
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: THEBats]
#148760 - 11/21/08 12:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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technology gets better so fast these days it's exponential
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: Justice_Fish]
#148767 - 11/21/08 12:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Justice_Fish said: technology gets better so fast these days it's exponential
true however nothing can exceed the speed of light. which means pretty much we are stuck.
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you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Justice_Fish
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: THEBats]
#148768 - 11/21/08 12:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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bah we'll see
If a black little boy can turn in a beatiful white woman we can travel in time
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: THEBats]
#148769 - 11/21/08 12:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why not?
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: wowitch420]
#148771 - 11/21/08 12:21 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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wowitch420 said: Why not?
I would have to really get down to explain this and I don't have the time. read a brief history of time if you're interested.
matter can approach the speed of light but it will never reach the speed of light. it just approaches the speed of light forever.
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you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: THEBats]
#148772 - 11/21/08 12:21 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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good answer
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Justice_Fish
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: wowitch420]
#148809 - 11/21/08 12:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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haha I just about something quite stupid
like you say, it's impossible
imagine someone invents something and go back to let's say year 1950 and he sells this product way ahead of time, he puts money in a certain account and he's rich in the time he was before and I ain't high no more
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Re: Eiensteins equation is finally proven correct. [Re: Justice_Fish]
#148810 - 11/21/08 12:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Justice_Fish said: bah we'll see
If a black little boy can turn in a beatiful white woman we can travel in time
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