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Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?)

Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer

For the next four years, he struggled to turn that happy thought into a coherent theory. Simple mathematics couldn’t deal with the audacity of his insight. Specifically, simple mathematics couldn’t handle the accelerating reference frames that he imagined.

In 1912, he took a professorship in theoretical physics at ETH Zurich, where he reconnected wi