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I don't know what you mean. e=mc^2 requires at least some understanding to make any use of it, lest you suppose burning a single lump of coal will keep your pow
by phaemon 13y ago
I don't know what you mean. e=mc^2 requires at least some understanding to make any use of it, lest you suppose burning a single lump of coal will keep your power station running all week ;-)
And even then, you need to know that "e" stands for "energy"...
- Tichy 13y agoIt wasn't the best example, but let's take the area of a circle, which is r^2*PI. I don't even know the proof for that by heart, but I can still make use of the information. A proof simply tells me that something is true. Further understanding is just a bonus.
- phaemon 13y agoThe understanding here is that πr^2 is the area of a circle. You are saying that this understanding is important/useful even without the proof. This is in direct contradiction to what you said earlier, where you said the proof was important/useful even without the understanding. Perhaps we're using the word "understanding" to mean two different things here and that's where the contradiction lies.