Guest Opinion - Einstein gave us this beautiful equation, now it's to us to tap its potential.

(From Canberra Times)

O NE HUNDRED years and one month ago, on 27 September 1905, young Albert Einstein delivered a manuscript to his publishers containing what we now recognise as the most famous equation of all time: E=mc2.

It describes the process that powers the sun, and therefore life on Earth. Its become an icon of its time recognised by most of us. But are we wasting the opportunity to use its awesome power to create a more sustainable future? E=mc2 is elegant and simple, explaining a universe of startling and unexpected concepts in a few precise and concise characters. It is the poetry of physics. E=mc2. It expresses the profound fact that energy can weigh something, that matter and energy are interchangeable. And that the transformation is unexpectedly …