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Question: how was e=mc2 made
- Keywords:
  e=mc2,
  einstein,
  energy,
  mass,
  speed of light
Asked by terimater2 to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 13 Jun 2011.
- Aimé Fournier answered on 9 Jun 2011:
  
  As I recall, a little before Einstein, some physicists noticed that the mathematics that describes electromagnetism had a remarkable property. If you transformed the equations in a certain way by mixing up time and space, you got the same equations back again! Those equations are so important that Einstein thought all physics equations should have that transformation property too. He argued that if we relate mass and energy by E=mc^2, we’d achieve that property.
- Akshat Rathi answered on 9 Jun 2011:
  
  E=mc2 is a by product of the special theory of relativity which Einstein proposed. When Einstein was trying to understand space and time, the math used spit out this equation. It is one of the fundamental laws of physics just like the speed of light is absolute.
- Diana Samuel answered on 13 Jun 2011:
  
  Einstein wasn’t the first person to relate energy with mass, but he was the one to come up with this equation, which describes what’s known as the ‘mass-energy equivalence’.

Question: how was e=mc2 made