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by colinmhayes 1874 days ago
The delta is implied. If you're being rigorous yea you'd include it. But you never see it used rigorously.
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Physics is usually pretty rigorous. In the context of science for a general audience, or printing pretty T-shirts, I get why it's omitted. I just find it funny that when it comes to E=mc^2 physics suddenly lack some rigour even in the college physics classes I've taken. It's probably OK to skip it I'm just curious as to why. I don't think I've ever seen the delta mentioned except in Einstein's original paper.