E != mc squard?
[The leading edge of physics contains some pretty interesting notions. Note: I received a C+ in my high school Physics class. Too lazy to do the math. But I understood everything conceptually. Didn’t make the same mistake in college when I took Micro and Macro Economics. -Thomas]
E and mc2: Equality, It Seems, Is Relative
By DENNIS OVERBYE
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There is very little agreement and much confusion about the possible end of relativity. “These are times when theorists are being very adventurous,” said Dr. Andreas Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis. “It’s hard to tell where things will go.”
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In the late 1980’s, Dr. V. Alan Kostelecky, a particle physicist at Indiana University, and his colleagues pointed out that in some of these solutions, the spins of the strings could impart an orientation to empty space, like the lines left by the weave in a fine cloth. In that case, they say, a clock oriented in one direction could tick slightly faster or slower than one oriented differently, in violation of the rules of relativity. That is something Dr. Kostelecky and his colleagues have proposed to test using ultraprecise clocks on the space station.
