Einstein has been vindicated

[Steve]

Link

PARIS (AFP) ? It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.

A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.

 

[JEDIYoda]

no OP commentary???

 

[Amoreena]

For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows."

 

[Leros]

party at steve's place

 

[Paratus]

Umm many of the results of relativity were corroborated years ago. This just looks like another.

 

[Amoreena]

Originally posted by: Leros
party at steve's place

BYOG

Bring Your Own Gluon

 

[Anubis]

nice

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
no OP commentary???

This isn't P&N

Originally posted by: Amoreena

Originally posted by: Leros
party at steve's place

BYOG

Bring Your Own Gluon

Sweet

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Amoreena

Originally posted by: Leros
party at steve's place

BYOG

Bring Your Own Gluon

hmmm: 4-year member, 17 posts, geeky physics joke.

you must be getting your PhD, no? how's dungeon life?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Steve

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
no OP commentary???

This isn't P&N

that's what I was going to say!

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Someone got a link to a better article? This one is shit TBH. Absolutely no detail.

 

[silverpig]

Crazy. QCD is hard.

 

[Random Variable]

in it's full form it's e^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Someone got a link to a better article? This one is shit TBH. Absolutely no detail.

Here

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Someone got a link to a better article? This one is shit TBH. Absolutely no detail.

If there's a paper you can probably find it at least on the archive... My guess is it's gonna be in Nature or something later anyways.

Seems pretty straight forward though, just calculating the energy of 3 quarks and 3 gluons, converting that to a mass via E=mc^2 and seeing if it makes up the full difference...