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New Scientist violates the laws of physics (updated)
A new article in the New Scientist begins with a statement of Newton’s third law that is blissfully ignorant of the irony. The article’s headline is: The magazine is notorious for its use of sensationalist headlines and seems to have done it again. Jon … Continue reading
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Tagged David Burns, em drive, helical drive, laws of physics, mass-energy equivalence, mass-energy-momentum equivalence, momentum, particle accelerator, special relativity
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Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2
An Indian scientist’s disputes with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence betray a misreading of how one of history’s most famous equations came to be. Continue reading
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Tagged Ajay Sharma, Albert Einstein, Cockcroft-Walton experiment, FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction hypothesis, Fritz Hasenhörl, general theory of relativity, Henri Poincare, mass-energy equivalence, mass-energy-momentum equivalence, Ricci tensor, special theory of relativity
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