Re: EV digest 1938

["Peter VanDerWal" <peterv@peoplepc.com>]

> 4.    E=m * C ^2 works just fine.  Ask any nuclear bomb.  The units of
> energy are kg* m^2  / s^2 so there are no left over units.
>

Uh huh, please explain how many watts of energy you get from one gram of
matter.  And you are not allowed to use any energy unit that is defined (in
anyway) as being equal to 'X' number of grams converted to energy.

P.S. The fact that nuclear bombs work does NOT prove E=MC^2, dynamite, black
power, flour, etc explodes too and it didn't take a physicist to make or
discover them.

My Point is not whether matter can be converted to energy, but with the
formula it self.  Why 'C'?  Why not the rate of expansion of the universe?
Or the orbital speed of the milkyway?

P.P.S.  What if Mass is a dimension?