Re: Proof for E=mc2

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:11:35 +0000 (UTC)

"Zigoteau" <zigoteau@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105869214.559400.75740@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...

[Androclown speaks first]

> > Finding an equation relating
> > the two was not something Newton did, that is agreed, but Newton's
> > physics didn't end with Newton. They continued once experiments
> > with electricity and magnetism were made, and diverged when
> > Einstein began guessing with his "thought" experiments.

> They . . Newtonian physics? . . started running into trouble at the
> end of the 18th century with various discoveries, including
> radioactivity.

I think you meant the end of the 19th century.
And don't forget that Newtonian physics at its barest level failed to
account correctly for the orbit of Mercury before that.

[snip]

Franz

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