It is done folks. Albert Einstein's celebrated formula e = mc squared was finally proven by a group of physicists!
(No, Chuck Norris is not the proof!!! :-)
This is an excerpt from an AFP news clip on how they did it:
"A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.
According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.
The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?"
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