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Physics is Wrong w/ Dr. Wolfgang Smith | Episode #22
Off Limits w/ Bryan Callen
The Democritian Formula E Equals MC Squared
The formula E equals MC squared which even physicists associate with Einstein was actually in the classical physics literature. There were physicists who knew this but they didn't know that atoms existed did they? That wasn't well let me allude to that because you raised a very very important point about in the beginning of the fifth century BC there was a Greek philosopher named Democritus and he's really the father of atomism. Well this Democritian tenet was very much attacked by Plato and his school and for about 2000 years it was prescribed by the informed. The informed world recognized this as a heresy but in the 17th century in Europe that very Democritan formula was rediscovered
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