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   Thomas Heger to All   
   Re: Fwd: Einstein's God (a cosmic religi   
   02 Jan 26 10:33:57   
   
   XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Donnerstag000001, 01.01.2026 um 14:30 schrieb Paul.B.Andersen:   
   > Den 01.01.2026 10:34, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   >> Am Mittwoch000031, 31.12.2025 um 08:57 schrieb The Starmaker:   
   >> ...   
   >>>   
   >>> https://content.time.com/time/magazine/archive/   
   >>> covers/1946/1101460701_400.jpg   
   >>   
   >> 'Time' magazine suggested, that Einstein actually invented the atomic   
   >> bomb (or at least its theoretical foundations).   
   >   
   > No.   
   > But the atom bomb proved in a very convincing way   
   > that mass could be converted to energy as   
   > predicted by Einstein's E = mc².   
   >   
   >>   
   >> But I don't see a relation between atomic bombs and Einstein's   
   >> equation (which actually wasn't Einstein's invention).   
   >   
   > There is no way the atom bomb could be invented   
   > from the equation E = mc².   
   >   
   > And Alfred Nobel had never heard of E = mc² when he   
   > invented dynamite. But the detonation of dynamite   
   > is another proof of mass converted to energy.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Investors of the foundations of atomic bombs were:   
   >> Otto Hahn   
   >> Marie Curie   
   >> Leo Szillard   
   >> Edward Teller   
   >> ...   
   >   
   > Don't forget Lisa Meitner who worked together with Otto Hahn   
   > before the war. Otto Hahn got the Nobel price in chemistry 1944,'   
   > and many thought that it should be shared with Lisa Meitner.   
      
   Sure, I forgot Lise Meitner. Sorry.   
      
   But there had certainly been numerous others, who contributed something.   
      
   ...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> 1905 refers to theory of relativity.   
   >>   
   >> But the article 'On the electrodynamics of moving bodies' (commonly   
   >> called SRT) didn't contain that equation.   
   >>   
   >> So: which paper of 1905 actually did?   
   >   
   > https://paulba.no/paper/Einstein_mc2.pdf   
   >   
      
   Thanks!   
      
   I have never seen that paper before.   
      
   TH   
      
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