@farmerman,
Quote:As rosborne said, E=mc^2 is the bitter end of F=Ma, which is actually F=m v^2. So when Einstein thought about it he said "what is the fastest v^2 I can come up with and it was, by limit of the universe thespeed of light, or (c). This was all a mind game with Einstein. It took an atomic pile and a bomb to prove it (sort of) right.
Your story is fake.
Actually, Einstein was called for helping with theoretic solutions with radioactive isotopes. The formulas and equations were needed for the Manhattan Project.
Einstein responded that he will do his best to cooperate with the project of the building of the atomic bomb. Einstein "solved" the problems in about two days and his work was sent to the office in Washington DC for review.
After the review, the experts found out that what Einstein wrote was nothing but garbage to the square.
The letter of termination with Einstein was modified in order to avoid the truth that Einstein was a good for nothing scientist, and the justification for fire him was that there was not time for giving him another chance to rewrite better his formulas.
In simple words, the ones in charge of the project Manhattan kicked out Einstein's ass from the project.
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About his formula.
As it was suggested by another participant here, not only there is a lack of correlation between the amount of matter involved in order for the formula be useful for physical purposes, but the basic of the formula suggesting that matter must travel or expand at a speed 180,000 x 180,000 miles per second is simply absurd.
This is to say, realistically speaking, the formula in question to become physically possible, must show matter traveling or expanding at 180,000 miles per second only, the speed barrier suggested by the author of that formula.
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The atomic bomb didn't become real because the dumb formula in question but by trial and error.
Doing so, the formulas applied for the new trials were in a continued change until the recipe finally gave the expected taste.