{"id":3087,"date":"2008-11-21T22:42:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2008-11-21T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T03:42:55","slug":"103-years-later-einsteins-proven-right-emc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/103-years-later-einsteins-proven-right-emc2\/","title":{"rendered":"103 years later, Einstein&#8217;s proven right, e=mc2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iYftcP0kR2mf032kK3WFVR9k_O2A\">AFP<\/a> | Nov. 21, 2008<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken more than a century, but Einstein&#8217;s celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.<\/p>\n<p>A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France&#8217;s Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world&#8217;s mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.<\/p>\n<p>The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.<\/p>\n<p>The e=mc2 formula shows that mass can be converted into energy, and energy can be converted into mass.<\/p>\n<p>By showing how much energy would be released if a certain amount of mass were to be converted into energy, the equation has been used many times, most famously as the inspirational basis for building atomic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iYftcP0kR2mf032kK3WFVR9k_O2A\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP | Nov. 21, 2008 It&#8217;s taken more than a century, but Einstein&#8217;s celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists. A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France&#8217;s Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world&#8217;s mightiest supercomputers, have set down &#8230; <a title=\"103 years later, Einstein&#8217;s proven right, e=mc2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/103-years-later-einsteins-proven-right-emc2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 103 years later, Einstein&#8217;s proven right, e=mc2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}