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
We next calculate the binding energy for one nucleus from the mass defect using the mass-energy equivalence equation:
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
The conversion between mass and energy is most identifiably represented by the mass-energy equivalence equation as stated by Albert Einstein:
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
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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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