Re: Nobel Prize for David Thomson?!

From: Tom Capizzi (tom.capizzi_at_verizon.net)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:47:53 GMT

"David Thomson" <news5@volantis.org> wrote in message
news:7MBCd.26$6L5.1438@news.uswest.net...
> "Bjoern Feuerbacher" <feuerbac@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote in message
> news:cre0i8$flm$6@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de...
>>>>>If you're going to make c = 1, you have to do it on both sides of the
>>>>>equation.
>>
>> Obviously. Your point? There is no "c" on the left hand side
>> of the equation E = m c^2.
>
> My point is that if E=mc^2 is an equality, then there IS an implied c^2 on
> the left hand side of the equation. But if there is an implied c^2 on the
> left hand side of the equation, then E cannot be the unit of joule. It is
> merely an empty variable since a joule is a specific quantity of energy.
> And if E is an empty variable, then E=mc^2 is not an equation, but a mere
> formula. So that any further mathematical treatments of E=mc^2 where it
> is treated as an equation are based on error. In other words, relativity
> theories based on the non-equation of E=mc^2, or which resolve to it, are
> also in error.
>

If this is an example of the kind of logic you use, it will be a cold day in
hell
before you are even considered for a Nobel prize.

[snip waste of time]

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