Re: PBS Einstein's big idea, E=m°c^2




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> The other one is related more closely to classical mechanics. It implied
> that Newton did not understand the conservation of energy.

The concept of energy and its conservation seems self evident today,
but it was a novel idea as late as the 1850's and had eluded such man
as Galileo (1564 - 1642) and Newton (1642 - ??).



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