A dissection one of the best known equations of all time:
The speed of light is a huge, huge quantity. Square it, and it’s even bigger. What this tells us is that a small, insignificant amount of mass can generate an amount of energy so fantastic it’s barely fathomable. The most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, with a yield of 60 megatons, was the equivalent of only 47 grams (less than 2 ounces) of matter being converted into energy. The Sun – our seemingly endless source of energy for the entire 4.5 billion years of the solar system’s life – has burned up less than 0.03 percent of its mass to burn as brightly as it does for all of the eons that it’s burned.
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