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E = MC ^ 2 is perhaps the most famous equation of all time. It stands for E(negery) = Mass times the Speed of Light (C) squared. What this means is that if you take the mass of an object and multiply it by the speed of light (2.9 x 10^8 metres per second) you will then have calculated the ammount of energy. As you can see, even a tiny ammount of mass when multiplied by such a huge number (C) yeilds an incredible ammount of energy. Releasing that energy can do everything from power cities (a nuclear powerplant) to destroy them (a nuclear bomb). Further applications found in Science Fiction include Star Trek's famous warp drive technology that uses a matter/anti-matter reactor to release the energy of particles to power an entire space ship.

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