That famous equation of Albert
Einstein, from which the basic structure of rocket science is made. That
equation, which opened the horizons of physics, was again sold by the
world-famous scientist's own handwriting for billions of dollars. A Boston
auction house reportedly sold it at a higher-than-expected price.
Archivists at the Einstein
Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology and the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem say the E = mc2 equation was used in a
letter written by Einstein himself. There are three more such letters where the
scientist himself mentions this famous equation.
Although they searched for the
previous three letters, they found this fourth letter in the auction market.
This is an important letter from a holographic and physics point of view,
according to the co-president of the Boston auction house Bobby Livingston. And
the whole world knows the value of this equation.
Einstein wrote the letter in
German to the Polish-American physicist Ludwig Silverstein. Silverstein was a
well-known critic and challenger of some of Einstein's theories.
In this equation, Einstein
said, "If an object travels at the speed of light, it will become full
energy and the amount of this energy will be E = mc2 where E is the
energy m mass c the speed of light." Scientists refer to this equation in
the Theory of Relativity. Although according to Silberstein the mass of the
object in this equation will become infinite which is not realistic. Einstein
counter-argued this in a letter, the auction house said.
