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clarify that the lack of proof refers to a lack of a mathematical proof
For more than a century, the claim that '''E=mc²''' has never yielded anything of value. Often it seems to be used as a redefinition of "[[energy]]" for pseudo-scientific purposes, as by the [[lamestream media]]. The equation has been used as a possible explanation for process involved in [[nuclear power]] generation and [[nuclear weapon]]s, and in the study of [[antimatter]].<ref>Tyson, Peter. "The Legacy of E=mc²." October 11, 2005. PBS ''NOVA''. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/legacy-of-e-equals-mc2.html</ref>
For more than a century, the claim that '''E=mc²''' has never yielded anything of value. Often it seems to be used as a redefinition of "[[energy]]" for pseudo-scientific purposes, as by the [[lamestream media]]. The equation has been used as a possible explanation for process involved in [[nuclear power]] generation and [[nuclear weapon]]s, and in the study of [[antimatter]].<ref>Tyson, Peter. "The Legacy of E=mc²." October 11, 2005. PBS ''NOVA''. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/legacy-of-e-equals-mc2.html</ref>
The [[Theory of Relativity]] has never been able to derive '''mc²''', 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</ref>
The [[Theory of Relativity]] has never been able to mathematically derive '''mc²''', 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</ref>
One aspect of the formula is that radiation has a mass equivalence, which was correctly derived by [[Henri Poincare]] in 1904:<ref>http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-42-8-540</ref>
One aspect of the formula is that radiation has a mass equivalence, which was correctly derived by [[Henri Poincare]] in 1904:<ref>http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-42-8-540</ref>