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From my sociology textbook:

>Yet, Sociology has no universally social laws that resemble: gravity (E=MC2) or the speed of light.

Now I'm no scientist, but doesn't E=MC2 measure something else?

>> No.1677490

I think it does. Fucking sociologists.

>> No.1677493

Hope to hell those parenthesis were meant to be commas.

>> No.1677489

>E=MC2
>measure
wat

>> No.1677496

>>1677493

Nope, I copied it straight from the book. It's an online text.

>> No.1677497

hahahahahaha

>> No.1677498

yeah, me too. e=mc2 is the formulae for working out the amount of energy held in a certain amount of matter and vice versa.

>> No.1677499

the dumbest pieces of shit in my college were sociology majors

>> No.1677500
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1677500

>E=MC2
>gravity

>> No.1677505

E=mc^2 has nothing at all to do with gravity
E=mc^2 has the speed of light in it, it doesn't resemble it
E=mc^2 is as fundamental as Pythagoras: not fundamental in any context ever at all

tl;dr: Your book was written by a typical sociology dumbfuck

>> No.1677507

I think they meant "gravity, e=mc2, or speed of light", each being a universal law
Not that they're laws, but that's forgivable as the concept of universality remains.

>> No.1677510

>>1677505
>E=mc^2 has nothing at all to do with gravity
>general relativity
>nothing to do with gravity

:|

>> No.1677512

>>1677482
name of book plz

>> No.1677517

>>1677510
I'm usually trying to answer something even dumber, but in this cas I'll have to pass.

>> No.1677522

>>1677517
Awww, please have a go.

>> No.1677532

>>1677512

http://freebooks.uvu.edu/SOC1010/index.php/cat-list.html

You should be able to see it there. The editing is all around shit. What I copied is in chapter 4.

>> No.1677546

>>1677505
>Pythagoras
>not fundamental in any context ever at all

wat. I'm no mathfag, but I assumed that theorem earned him some kind of place.

>> No.1677558

>>1677546

Contrary to popular belief, Pythagoras wasn't the first to theorize his theorem, he actually just rediscovered it.

In truth, he's more important to philosophy students than math students.

>> No.1677573

>>1677558
As a current philosophy minor, I feel I should have known this. Oh well.

>> No.1677575

>>1677546
He discovered it among many other great achievements back in ancience Greece. It's may be an interesting theorem in a historical context, but that's about it. You need it every now and then when you're doing calculations with vectors in a plane, say in the first few semesters. When you learn what a norm is, Pythagoras becomes a trivial thing. It's kind of the math version of <span class="math">x=\frac12 a t^2[/spoiler].

>> No.1677582

>>1677558
And who the hell cares? Some math shit that does everything and doesn't afraid of nothing

>> No.1677616

E=m*c^2

E= energy
m= mass
c^2= speed of light x speed of light ( 11.664e^17 kph)

>> No.1678615

>>1677616
E=mc²
[E] = Joules
[m] = kg
[c] = m/s
Joules = kg*m²/s² = kg*m*m/s²
E = l*m*a

HOW THE FUCK CAN ENERGY BE LENGTH, TIMES MASS, TIMES ACCELERATION

FUCKING SAJDJASD

>> No.1678627

>>1678615

Joules are newton meters. Newtons are kilogram meters per second per second.

>> No.1678676

>>1678615

>Length

What kind of asspull is that.

>> No.1678732

>>1678615
because work is force dot displacement...?