The Beginner’s Guide to E=mc2

The Guide
4 min readAug 4, 2018

An everyday guide to one of the most famous formulas in the world

Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

While E=mc2 has been attributed as one of Albert Einstein’s famous equations, it is interesting to note that the first allusion to this concept was only as a sentence in German. It was in one of his early papers and stated how an object’s mass would diminish when its’ energy is given off. It was only in subsequent papers that this concept was…

--

--

The Guide

The Guide provides you with an understanding of the world around you, all to sound smarter at your next dinner party.