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Thank you we sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by albert einstein Albert was the guy

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who came up with the whole e equals m c

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squared thing had great hair He also came up with

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the theory of relativity helped to create a model of

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warm holes and did a bunch more super smart stuff

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As for us this morning we made a pbj on

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lee We got distracted and forgot to put jelly in

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it so yeah we're not quite on his level We've

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made a peepee If the amount of mass lost during

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a nuclear reaction doubles what happens to the energy released

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and hear potential answer double Okay we've been waiting for

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this moment We finally get to talk about the world's

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most famous equation E equals m c squared who And

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yes is the kind of stuff that gets us well

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equals m c squared describes how energy and mass are

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related to each other Energy equals mass times the speed

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of light squared speed of light is a really big

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number two hundred ninety nine million seven hundred two thousand

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forty Fifty eight meters per second to be precise fast

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hopefully square that we could spend a few eons counting

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that high with our fingers and toes We have to

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take our socks off What does that mean Well it

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means that if mass is converted to energy we'll have

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a whole lot of energy on our hands Like scary

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amounts of energy Kaboom Amounts of energy like that in

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a nuclear reaction mass is converted to energy The more

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mass that's lost in a reaction the more energy that's

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produced waken Think of this equation as e equals the

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change in mass times the speed of light square Well

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if we double the change in mass we just add

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to the coefficient and because we're doubling one side of

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the equation We know that the other side has to

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double to no The correct answer is deep right there

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which just makes sense if we double one side of

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an equation and the other side has increased proportionally way

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can't be quite a smart Is einstein waken look like 00:02:07.945 --> [endTime] hey baby yeah we're dialing

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