Recent content by Shrike15

Firstly I thank everyone for their replies, To set the record straight I' am a second year engineering student. D H you have assumed way too much about me and my post, when you didn't even understand the question in the first place. I was pleased to see that both 'Soothsayer' and...

Hi With special relativity I understand that if for example you have one gram of matter and it is converted to pure energy you will get E=0.001*299,792,458^2 joules of energy. However what I ‘am unsure of is; is it merely a coincidence that the value of the speed of light relates to...