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Did Einstein sometimes turn to plageurism?
E = mc². However, it was Poincaré who in 1900 first published the "energy equation" in slightly different form, namely as: m = E / c²
We all know this formula is just transposed!
A few historians of science believe Einstein was aware that the famous French mathematical physicist Henri Poincare had already published the equations of relativity a few weeks before Einstein submitted his paper.
In 1912 Einstein started to refer to time as the fourth dimension (although FG Wells had done this earlier, in 1895 in the Time Machine.
That is not to take away the good work that Einstein had done generally.
We all know this formula is just transposed!
A few historians of science believe Einstein was aware that the famous French mathematical physicist Henri Poincare had already published the equations of relativity a few weeks before Einstein submitted his paper.
In 1912 Einstein started to refer to time as the fourth dimension (although FG Wells had done this earlier, in 1895 in the Time Machine.
That is not to take away the good work that Einstein had done generally.
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Firstly Poincare's work was on a different thing the mass of a fictious fluid providing radiation pressure
That famous equation is a very small part of relativity - it's just that it's the only part most people know - it wasn't even in the main paper but in an addendum Einstein published shortly after and was expressed in a different way.
This is a translation of that paper 3 months after the relativity one
He says:
K0-K1=1/2 L/c² v²
L here is the energy - you can easily derive the famous equation from this
So actually Einstein never actually even said E = mc²
Firstly Poincare's work was on a different thing the mass of a fictious fluid providing radiation pressure
That famous equation is a very small part of relativity - it's just that it's the only part most people know - it wasn't even in the main paper but in an addendum Einstein published shortly after and was expressed in a different way.
This is a translation of that paper 3 months after the relativity one
He says:
K0-K1=1/2 L/c² v²
L here is the energy - you can easily derive the famous equation from this
So actually Einstein never actually even said E = mc²
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