E=MC2

Quick Question

Energy = Mass times the speed of light squared.. Why does the Speed of light need to be Squared?

i think because it's "mc^2" that technically it's the product of the mass times the acceleration that gets squared

>>1
Because physics is godly.

Unit analysis.

>>2
Phail.

because it needs to be a really big number

because that's the way it worked out?  for one thing, if it wasn't squared its units would be for momentum not energy.

It demonstrates how energy can turn into matter and matter can turn into energy, as demonstrated with chi and psychokinesis.

>>7

Pyrokinesis, yes, but not psychokinesis

Force is defined as dp/dt.  In special relativity momentum is defined as gamma times mass times velocity.  Energy is the integral of force with respect to distance.  If you integrate (dp/dt) dr with the relativistic equation for momentum (Requires integration by parts) then you get that the total energy of a particle is equal to it's kinetic energy, plus a second term.  The second term being mc^2 or it's rest mass.

>>9
No, faghat, differentiation on non-differential topology is impossible.  GTFO

Except E=mc^2 is derived from special relativity and the associated kinematic equations alone, not general realtivity, so fuck off.

>>10
Wow.  Just wow.  lrn2mathematics

>>10
Where do non differential topologies appear?  Flat minkowski space is definitely a differential topology (flat in fact).

>>12
BANNED for catchphrase popularized by Jon Stewart

>>14
Lies

http://instruct.tri-c.edu/fgram/web/p&mc2.htm

derivation of E=mc^2.