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apiyesterday at 4:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

E=mc^2 and c^2 is a big number.


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gopalvyesterday at 8:04 PM

> c^2 is a big number.

Famous tweet about conversations with God.

[1] - https://x.com/WraithLaFrentz/status/1981404849305686219

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nextaccounticyesterday at 7:12 PM

indeed, but note that c^2 is just a factor to convert between units here and is completely arbitrary (or rather, c is so high because our units are human scale)

indeed, in the most natural systems of units in this area, we set c = 1 as to simplify the equations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system

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