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		liber8 on May 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which of the Basic Assumptions of Modern Physics a... I'm sure this theory will be proven to be not entirely correct someday. As a corollary, I expect that e=mc^2 will also be slightly modified.

busted on May 31, 2012 | [–]

I don't know from what background you're making that statement but in general it's good for people to know that E=mc^2 only when the object is at rest, otherwise you must account for momentum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence...

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