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Explain that the proofs actually exist.
Proofs of the formula [[E=mc²]] abound in the scientific literature, in print and on the internet, though many of them are more complicated than they need to be, because they are proving it in a more wide-ranging and less focused context. A good example may be found on pages 121-138 of ''Spacetime Physics'' by Edwin Taylor and John Wheeler (W. H. Freeman, 1966, ISBN 0-7167-0336-X). An exposition on the internet may be found at Wikiversity<ref name="wvarticles">Five lectures at Wikiversity. The 4<sup>th</sup> one derives the formula:
*[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special_relativity/space,_time,_and_the_Lorentz_transform Lecture 1]
*[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special_relativity/momentum Lecture 2]
*[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special_relativity/energy Lecture 3]
*[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special_relativity/E_%3D_mc%C2%B2 Lecture 4]
*[http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special_relativity/spacetime_diagrams_and_vectors Lecture 5]</ref>.
The remainder of this article is a list of purported flaws in these proofs, and speculation on possible motives (other than a search for scientific truth) of people developing these proofs.
Attempts to prove E=mc² are futile because there is no mass-energy equivalence. But that has not stopped people, including [[liberals]] who avoid the [[Bible]], from insisting that they have cleverly developed a "proof" of E=mc², and thereby established a mass-energy equivalence which, in fact, does not exist.
== Flaws in "Proofs" ==
== Flaws in "Proofs" ==
Another motivation of E=mc² is to try to make the [[Theory of Relativity]] consistent with the principle of the conservation of energy, by pretending that mass gains or loses energy to make up for the energy discrepancy in Relativity.
Another motivation of E=mc² is to try to make the [[Theory of Relativity]] consistent with the principle of the conservation of energy, by pretending that mass gains or loses energy to make up for the energy discrepancy in Relativity.
== References ==
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[[category:Relativity]]
[[category:Relativity]]