{"id":238892,"date":"2026-06-13T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/e-mc2"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:30:22","slug":"e-mc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/e-mc2","title":{"rendered":"E= mc^2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/e-mc2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s famous equation has grown into one of the great symbols of the 20th century. It is the one equation in science that people recognize, if any is. It has a kind of iconic status and dual connotations: the brilliance and insight of Einstein and the darkness of atomic bombs. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.pitt.edu\/~jdnorton\/teaching\/HPS_0410\/chapters\/E=mcsquared\/E_mc2_popular_images\/index_pop_images.html\">Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea behind the formula E=mc<sup>2<\/sup> is easy to state. Mass and energy are really just the same thing. At first that seems impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mass is a measure of the quantity of stuff and manifests as a resistance to acceleration. A body with little mass, like a pebble, is easy to set in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein\u2019s famous equation has grown into one of the great symbols of the 20th century. It is the one equation in science that people recognize, if any is. It has a kind of iconic status and dual connotations: the brilliance and insight of Einstein and the darkness of atomic bombs. Images. The basic idea behind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,41,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-information-science","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}