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Superb review of latest in particle physics and spacetime. …with the mass-increase effect is Einstein’s famous formula This process is broken down into a few key steps: 1)an understanding that the speed of light is constant and therefore space and time must be "variables"; 2) the mathematical definition of spacetime and the formula needed to relate events within it; and 3) the definition of vectors in spacetime.



Let's play a game! Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, Atlanta.

I think writing a simple account of very difficult material is hard to achieve and so every such effort should be praised wherever it is found – but there is a fine line between simple and patronising and I’m not sure this one respects that line all of the time. I’ve got rather mixed feelings about this one. And what's the energy connection between massive and massless particles?The key is to imagine taking a particle of antimatter and a particle of matter (like an electron and a positron), colliding them together, and getting massless particles (like two photons) out.

Couldn't stop connecting things while reading this and I love that this was such a quick and enjoyable yet very eye opening read.Brilliant introduction to relativity and the famous E=mc2 equation. The energy of the box/photon system is the box’s rest mass plus the kinetic energy of the box plus the energy of the photon. Jeff Forshaw manfully reads out the equations but I couldn't manage to conjure them up in my mind's eye. This merely added to the annoying impression that the authors are explaining all the n a s t y, d i f f i c u l t s c i e n c e y - w i e n c e y v e r y s l o w l y t o y o u. At some very general level, the equivalence of energy and mass can be understood, but the role of light ("c") and light squared remains a challenge.

By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user JTBarnabas.There does need to be an equivalence between mass and energy, but it's the dual need to conserve both energy and momentum that tells us why there's only one possible value for the constant that relates those two sides of the equation: I am a Ph.D. astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges. I don't really know how to criticize, comment or even rate it (for the most of the reading I was pretty sure I would leave no rating at all). interaction, it's impossible to conserve both energy and momentum. Mass is energy.

And momentum has energy. This book brought back that old, familiar feeling, but in an even better way. But all photons, regardless ofImage credit: Einstein deriving special relativity, 1934, viaThe initial setup of our thought experiment: a photon with momentum and energy moving inside of aInitially, this box is going to be perfectly stationary, but since photons carry energy (and momentum), when that photon collides with the mirror on one side of the box and bounces off, that box is going to begin moving towards the direction that the photon was initially traveling in. Why Does E=mc²?

Especially since they don't even mention momentum until 5 chapters later. Suddenly everything else I've read makes so much more sense.

I understand this was attempting to make Einstein's theories accessible to lay people, but I feel it felt a little bit short.Cox and Forshaw pack Einstein’s theories of relativity and much more into 250 pages. You still have the same old normal, everyday, rest mass that you always had. Then, everything went worse.So, first of all, this is a lovely little introduction to relativity, both special and general, produced with just the right amount of math to make all the concepts clear without too many confounding and always unhelpful analogies (though at times it did feel a bit patronizing – they spend quite a while explaining, for example, the concept of a So, first of all, this is a lovely little introduction to relativity, both special and general, produced with just the right amount of math to make all the concepts clear without too many confounding and always unhelpful analogies (though at times it did feel a bit patronizing – they spend quite a while explaining, for example, the concept of a There are some books that are enhanced by metamorphosis into audiobook, and others that need to remain firmly in the realm of the written word.


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