mass-energy
Britishnoun
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According to the Standard Model and previous mass measurements, the W boson should weigh about 80.357 billion electron volts, the unit of mass-energy favored by physicists.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2022
This “missing” mass is the mass defect, which has been converted into the binding energy that holds the nucleus together according to Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence equation, E = mc2.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Substituting this quantity into the mass-energy equivalence equation yields:
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
To go back in time by one year, unfortunately, you'd need a loop containing about half the mass-energy of an entire galaxy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physicists theorize that up to 27 percent of the mass-energy content of the universe is composed of what they refer to as dark matter.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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