Second delivery of the STEM world meeting the crypto world. And it is the time for the EMC2 coin, or Einsteinium ??. Yes, you thought it right, in honor to Alfred Einstein, the musicologist born in 1880, and one of the editors of the Kochel catalogue… Ok, no, I’m kidding, I’m talking about “the man, the myth, the legend”… This guy ??
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EMC2 is the coin that the Einsteinium Foundation uses for scientific projects and research funding, and they have contributed over 16,000,000 EMC2, which are equivalent to more than $ 850,000 USD (at the moment I am writing this).
Just as the BTC, it is a PoW crypto, which means it is mineable and it has a maximum supply of 300M coins, so far there are over 220M of them circulating the market and the users wallets (almost 75%). The most wided exchange/trading platform that supports this coin is BITTREX.
The lowest price that had reached was 0.000025 dollars on Jan 3th, 2016 according to Coinmarketcap, and the highest value was $ 2.88 USD on Dec 7th in 2017 (which was over 100,000 times the lowest value!! Imagine what would have happened if we had invested just 1 dollar). According to Coingecko the lowest value was 0.0000588 USD and the higher was 2.58, which is still a ratio of 50,000, HUGE NUMBERS!! ?? But be careful the volatility of the cryptomarket, can be blessing and curse at the same time ???
But besides the crypto things, Einsteinium is well known in the field of Chemistry and Physics, because it is the name of the 99th element on the periodic table. It has an appreciable amount of 19 isotopes, 3 of them having 2 “nuclear isomers”... Wait, dude... what are those names?
Oh sorry...
An isotope is a variation on the number of neutrons of an specific element, usually what defines an element to be one on its kind and different from the other ones it’s the amount of PROTONS in its nucleus, but neutrons may differ, giving different atomic masses and therefore different nuclear properties.
A nuclear isomer is the same type of isotope but with different “energy levels” being occupied by its nucleons.
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So all good? ??
Although it is a cool element and named after one of the greatest scientist this little chemical guy has a tiny usage among research and nuclear activities (yes it's quite radioactive ??). But hey, want to know another thing related with Einstein? the EMC2 name is good, but not quite accurate.
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Above you have what might be the most famous equation (or formula) known by anyone, regardless of their area of interest, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg that hides something much deeper.
First of all the equation is “incomplete”, the original equation is actually this one:
E^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2
So, as you can see, the term mc^2 looks the same, but appears a pc term, what is that? Well, it’s the contribution of the motion of the object, because just by the mc^2 it’s the contribution of the mass itself, but motion through the space-time tissue contributes as well to the relativistic energy of a body.
The second thing that's not so explicit is that when we refer to m, we are talking about rest mass, cause there is also a relativistic mass that’s the Lorentz factor times the rest m. But I’ll keep to myself that Lorentz thing for another STEM delivery, deal? Hehehe, hope you liked this cryptoscience melt
...and yes, I’ll leave a little uncertainty, just like Heissenberg (the scientist, not the alter ego of Walter White)
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