That famous equation
Einstein didn't conceive it in the form you know.
Published:
December 27, 2004
| The equation E=mc2 is easily the most famous formula in history. It has had an immense impact on physics, technology, and, not least, politics. Einstein wrote the first version of it during his "miracle year" of 1905, publishing his thoughts in a three-page paper that makes a kind of appendix to the special relativity paper that appeared earlier that year. |
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