instead of assuming that the velocity c is

Landon Mckinney

Landon Mckinney

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2022-05-13

instead of assuming that the velocity c is a maximal velocity, proving that while assuming E = m c 2 .

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Superina0xb4i

Superina0xb4i

Beginner2022-05-14Added 17 answers

These two concepts are not related at all, so it's not possible to deduce anything either way.
Special relativity in its bare form talks only about space-time, i.e. geometry. You don't have any energy or mass there without first somehow postulating what it is.
For the reverse direction: you can't really deduce anything about SR from E = m c 2 because E and m could be anything (in particular you don't know whether E is a component of a four-momentum p or something completely different). And even if you knew what E and m was that would still give you no clue about what c is (and that it should be constant in every inertial frame).

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