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The [[Theory of Relativity]] has never been able to mathematically derive '''E=mc²''' from first principles, and a physicist observed in a peer-reviewed paper published in 2011 that "Leaving aside that it continues to be affirmed experimentally, a rigorous proof of the mass-energy equivalence is probably beyond the purview of the special theory."<ref>[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AmJPh..79..591H Eugene Hecht: ''How Einstein confirmed E<sub>0</sub>=mc²'', American Journal of Physics, Volume 79, Issue 6, pp. 591-600 (2011)]</ref>
The [[Theory of Relativity]] has never been able to mathematically derive '''E=mc²''' from first principles, and a physicist observed in a peer-reviewed paper published in 2011 that "Leaving aside that it continues to be affirmed experimentally, a rigorous proof of the mass-energy equivalence is probably beyond the purview of the special theory."<ref>[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AmJPh..79..591H Eugene Hecht: ''How Einstein confirmed E<sub>0</sub>=mc²'', American Journal of Physics, Volume 79, Issue 6, pp. 591-600 (2011)]</ref>
Many conservatives favor the civilian use of nuclear energy to generate electricity. These conservatives claim that nuclear reactors are well-designed and that the physics of the release of energy inside nuclear reactors is well-understood. The equation E=mc² allows engineers to predict the amount of energy that will be released at such generating stations. So, at least those conservatives do not attack the equation.<ref>http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/Community/WhatIsNuclearEnergy.shtm</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nei.org/How-It-Works/electricpowergeneration|title=Electric Power Generation|publisher=Nuclear Energy Institute|accessdate=April 5, 2013}}</ref>
==See also==
==See also==