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i was just wondering this, and i know its completely random, but how does E=MC^2 work?

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  • kayak
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    any mass that is accelerated to the speed of light squared will be tranformed directly into energy - of course this must occur in a vacuum to preclude the mass from overheating from friction and disintergrating well before it reached the speed necessary to be transformed directly into energy,

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In physics, E = mc2 is the equation that expresses an equivalence between energy (E) and mass (m), in direct proportion to the square of the speed of light in a vacuum (c2). Several definitions of mass in special relativity may be validly used with this equation

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