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Introduction: The "Proof" of Special Relativity
When Einstein first proposed his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 few people understood it and even fewer believed it. It wasn't until 1919 that the Special Theory was "proved by inference" from an experiment carried out on his General Theory of Relativity. Physicists now routinely use relativity in experiments all over the world every day of the year. However, many of these experiments are highly specialised and usually require a great deal of knowledge and training in order to understand them. So what evidence is there for the general public? Probably the most spectacular "proof" is nuclear weapons. These pages are not about the morality of such weapons (but that's not to say that the question of their existence or use is not an important one). However, whether one "likes" nuclear weapons or not no one would deny that they exist.Nuclear weapons (such as A- and H-bombs) are built on one principle; that mass can be turned into energy, and the equation that exactly predicts that conversion is E = mc2. So what has that to do with Special Relativity? The answer is that E = mc2 is derived directly from Special Relativity. If relativity is wrong, then nuclear weapons simply wouldn't work. Any theory or point of view that opposes Special Relativity must explain where E = mc2 comes from if not relativity. Other models of relativity that contain E = mc2 exist but here we are concerned with the standard model as proposed by Einstein.This page explains, with minimal mathematics, how E = mc2 is derived from Special Relativity. In doing so it follows the same theoretical arguments that Einstein used
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Introduction: The "Proof" of Special Relativity
When Einstein first proposed his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 few people understood it and even fewer believed it. It wasn't until 1919 that the Special Theory was "proved by inference" from an experiment carried out on his General Theory of Relativity. Physicists now routinely use relativity in experiments all over the world every day of the year. However, many of these experiments are highly specialised and usually require a great deal of knowledge and training in order to understand them. So what evidence is there for the general public? Probably the most spectacular "proof" is nuclear weapons. These pages are not about the morality of such weapons (but that's not to say that the question of their existence or use is not an important one). However, whether one "likes" nuclear weapons or not no one would deny that they exist.Nuclear weapons (such as A- and H-bombs) are built on one principle; that mass can be turned into energy, and the equation that exactly predicts that conversion is E = mc2. So what has that to do with Special Relativity? The answer is that E = mc2 is derived directly from Special Relativity. If relativity is wrong, then nuclear weapons simply wouldn't work. Any theory or point of view that opposes Special Relativity must explain where E = mc2 comes from if not relativity. Other models of relativity that contain E = mc2 exist but here we are concerned with the standard model as proposed by Einstein.This page explains, with minimal mathematics, how E = mc2 is derived from Special Relativity. In doing so it follows the same theoretical arguments that Einstein used
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