I thank you guys for your efforts. The reason I asked the question about Einstein’s formula was that the result did not look correct, after all, the resulting number would be way over the 300,000,000 m/s assigned to light speed.
OK now I understand the formula as follows:
If m = 2kg then I must multiply that by 2 and get 4 = 4*1 kg which is a square.
Then about 300,000 km/s * 300,000 km/s = square m/s. 9*10^16
Then about 9*10^16 square m/s * 4 = 3.6*10^17.
Then this would indicate to me that 3.6*10^17 square meters would be radiated in one second if 2 kilograms of mass would be converted to energy.
This only takes into consideration of the energy from rest mass conversion.
The energy from the daughter elements are not calculated due to the fact that all of the 2kg would be converted to energy, the daughter elements would remain in the material that is left over.
I suppose that the final figure should be converted to volume.
Sorry podrock, not very accurate calculation but should give some idea of how I understand the calculation of the formula at this moment in time.
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- I do not want to upset any one here, but I would like an answer to two more questions.