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Jos Boersema (josX): The Boersema Challenge  (11-Sep-2002)

> Einstein had nothing to do with the atomic bomb. I don't buy it that E=mc^2
> has anything to do with this bomb at all. I think it is far more likely that
> there was some misinformation spread by America that relativity theories
> had anything to do with the bomb. In any case: c' = c and a = g (the two
> great insanities of A.E. sucked from his thumb) have little or nothing
> to do with splitting atoms and obtaining fast moving particles from them.
> I'd say that the bomb has more to do with chemistry, then with wrong
> philosophical theories.
>
> Question: E=Amc^2 is just the kinetic energy of light for A = .5. what
> is so presumed special about this formula, where E=1/2mv^2 is simple
> kinetic energy. Another fuckup? Another little piece of crap floating
> around endlessly from A.E. because of an hysterical press and phycisists
> taking advantage ?
> Well ?  
> --
> jos

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