Thank you Johannes, for your attempts at putting someone like RL firmly in his place (his ignorance of your 'knowledge' is now manifest, is it not?). I was completely wrong about you. I am so very amused with the significance and depth of your wit!!!

"When you state that, "MC^2 is the rest mass energy", I find myself wondering if I should respond to you in the manner that you respond to me. I could respond by saying that; mass at rest, containing energy, is an oxymoron. Or I could say that perhaps you lack the oxy and are total m…….. But that would only confuse the issue at hand.
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hehehehe LOLOLOLOL!!!! ROTFLMFAO!!! Great one, Joe!

"Perhaps your understanding of the word energy is different from my understanding of the word. I will instead, ask you to define the fundamental meaning of the word energy. Please explain how you understand the seemingly contradictory statement that you made. "

Snurk! Guffaw!!! Hehehehe

Statement 1: "In my understanding the word *energy* involves the capacity for work or vigorous activity"

Statement 2: "It may be possible that you are talking about Newtonian physics of motion and I am talking about Einstein's fundamental physics."

Hehehehe!!! Sure, its possible!!!! haahaha!!!

"I can be quite content just smiling at the attempts of others to obtain the deeper understanding that I already have. "

Johannes, do you take on students? And if not, could you perhaps provide some history and background of how you attained this subtle and delicate knowledge?

"The development of my understanding of this particular subject has taken over forty years, and I am still learning."

40 years? Wow. I am Quite Impressed!

Great stuff, Johannes- I could not have done better myself... and I mean that in the Ancient Greek sort of way.

Davin L.