Scientists prove that E does equal mc2

IT’S no longer a theory after 103 years, scientists have proved German-born genius Albert Einstein knew exactly what relativity is.

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, used some of the world’s most powerful computers to set calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons.

According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons. The odd thing is: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only 5%.

So where is the missing 95%?

The answer, claims the study published in the US journal Science, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons. In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.

“Until now, this has been a hypothesis,” a spokesman for France’s National Centre for Scientific Research said.

“It has now been corroborated for the first time.”