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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Interesting side note: E = mc^2 has very little to do with fission physics. The popular link between E = mc^2 and atomic bombs is erroneous. Fission reactions result in almost no conversion of mass into energy. The energy comes from the breaking of inter-nuclear bonds, not mass-to-energy conversion.
The reason Einstein's equation is important to atomic bombs or nuclear power funnily enough is the C, because the resulting energy releases at the speed of light.
Which makes the energy a very big number
if c=299792458 m/s
then c^2 = 8.98755179×10^16
So a small mass can make a lot of energy.
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