E= MC2 is one of the most famous equations of all time and this book makes its existence understandable and relative to every day life. When Albert Einstein came out with the this equation it was revolutionary because it linked mass and energy as just alternates of each other. They are interchangeable. E is energy, M is mass, C is the speed of light. In this way Bodanis displays how time is kept by the limitations of the speed of light. If one was able to exceed the speed the it waould result in time travel relative to how much faster the speed of light was exceeded.
Einstein might be its father but scientists such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier also have contributed greatly to how the formula developed and its applications. The equation manifests as the life of each scientist who nurture it and develop it until it is fully "grown" in present day.
After David gives the formula life it shows how it became and infamous criminal through the retelling of a certain event in 1942. The equation becomes especially vital during the nuclear arms race of World War II. The equation leads to the nuclear bomb, which converts an ounce of the radioactiove elements plutonium or uranium an apacolyptic force that can engulf several miles. The formula killed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In an ironic twist of fate, the scientists prized child became a cold blooded murderer.
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