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@MelBuffington @mblutzow @WatchmansParadox @CanuckDissenter @Transplant_experiment @Tigger-usa No one stated that Einstein was born after Asimov. That is entirely non sequitur. All one can state or needs to state is E = mc2. To try to insinuate I've said more is simply speculation on your part. The explication by Asimov later is his own, and is in fact the name of his short story. Why would he name his story that? C stands for constant as is taught in every entry level physics class. But this omits the history of physics. It also stands for celeritas, or celerity, as early physicists and Einstein himself, wrote in their first publications, because what is a factor in that constant of the speed of light? TIME. As further work in physics shows the speed of light is dependent upon a mathematical representation of time which has a value also, and Einstein admitted his mistake - there is a speed faster than the speed of light. This is is also now mathematically now proven. Einstein's and other physicists' work on what is spacetime is available to anyone. These are proven concepts. Trying to argue that time is as constant as the speed of light is silly since the speed of light is NOT constant; it varies in a strong gravitational field - update yourself friend. A few years of physics is fine as an appetizer. A book falls off a shelf, you fire a cannon. Newtonian physics. Well done. Now comes all the rest you need to know. Now comes the real work. Get busy! The speed of light accelerates for example as it nears a black hole. A fine astronaut you would make - you'd be sucked past the event horizon of a black hole and then whammo, like a Rush song. "But but but I didn't know the speed of light accelerated as we neared a black hole!" The black hole does not care, my friend. Space is an unforgiving master. What Q is proposing, and as Dan Burisch suggests is that theoretical physics has now become applied physics. This is not just one Q post either. I realize this is hard to take in but it is as simple as accepting that what was theorized 100 years ago will all become applied if it is good science. "It will not be for everyone."