Re: Einstein was wrong!

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From: Jim Carr
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 00:00

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 ... note followups to relativity newsgroup ...

"Dan" <Family2001@prodigy.net> writes:
>
>I would like to know if Einstein picked c through some mathematical
>calculations,  ...

 Yes.  In a justifiably famous set of papers, all available in 
 english translation in a Dover paperback. 

>Has anyone ever (of course they must
>have, I just never heard of it) actually measured the mass lost as compared
>to the energy released and verified the equation, ...

 Yes.  In fact, Lise Meitner used relativity along with the measured 
 masses of the elements (from chemistry) to predict the energy release 
 from fission, and her nephew Frisch measured it. 

 The relationship is used regularly in nuclear and particle physics. 

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From: jac@ibms48.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
Subject: Re: Einstein was wrong!
Date: 1998/05/05
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