What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light,while exploding commonly held misconceptions,they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of re-creating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc2? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.
These two Professors from Manchester do an awesome job to get Einstein's famous equation through to a layman like me using mathematics not more difficult than the pythagorean theorem! Throwing light upon various topics like how Einstein came up with this equation and others like the speed of light, Large Hadron Collider, warping spacetime and black holes, Prof Brian and Dr. Forshaw make this book a masterpiece. This book is a must-read and is totally worth the investment.