Einstein and India's Inert Economy

July 11, 2012 11:21

Every high-school physics student is familiar with Einstein's famous equation linking energy and mass with a mathematical constant, the speed of light: E=mc2.

Einstein used the equation to prove that even inert objects carry mass-equivalent energy and that no particle can exceed the velocity of light (roughly 3,00,000 km/sec).

As particles approach the speed of light, their mass increases and time measured on them slows down. The European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) recently confirmed the century-old argument in Einstein's favour: nothing indeed can travel faster than light.

Read more of that on the Economic Times.

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