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Pierre Simon Laplace, 1741-1827: A Determined Scientist
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The Journal of Philosophy, 2001
THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY VOLUME XCVIII, NO.
5, MAY 2001-4-0-+ THE MOST FAMOUS EQUATION* typical undergraduate physics textbook, written byJoseph W. A Kane and Morton M. Sternheim,' says: The equation E = Mc2 is perhaps the most famous equation of twentiethcentury physics.
It is a statement that mass and energy are two forms of the same thing, and that one can be converted into the other (ibid., p.
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493). With the first of these sentences, concerning the fame of Albert Einstein's equation, it is difficult to disagree. But the second sentence, which characterizes mass and energy as interconvertible and "two forms of the same thing," suggests that some care will need to be exercised in interpreting the famous equation.
Indeed, it is difficult to find a scientific equation whose ontological implications have been misunderstood s