Ouch, my brain hurts!
BTW, RoadClosed, people have been putting up a bunch of signs with your name on 'em all around the area lately.
Too much rain.
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Ouch, my brain hurts!
BTW, RoadClosed, people have been putting up a bunch of signs with your name on 'em all around the area lately.
Too much rain.
Yes I am taking over the highways.
Here's a concept I apply. Energy = "Relativistic" Mass as stated in Einstein's Theory of "Relativity"
Lol yeah a stupid big number. C is the speed of light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 (meters per second) then you square the whole thing! So you have to multiply the mass by almost 300 million to get a small amount of energy.Quote:
well takeing a small amount of mass we get a large amount of energy bucause that constant is a [glowpurple]stupidly big number [/glowpurple] but E/c^2 = M IT would take a *Very* large amount of energy to make a very small amount of mass, not very cost effective.
Energy and matter are linked by a constant - e=mc^2 therefore energy and matter are the same thing.Quote:
Originally posted here by RoadClosed
I argue that energy is matter. Without matter there can be no energy?
Energy is excited matter.
Energy has different properties depending on the type - Kinetic has velocity, Thermal has heat.
Matter is just a form of energy that has its own special proerties that we percieve in certian ways (It can be solid liquid or gas etc etc)
Steve
Energy is not just radiation (light) there are many many other forms of energy.Quote:
Originally posted here by Drakain Zeil
Energy is not matter, therefore it cannot have a state or a state change, energy is energy. It can be slowed down, like light has been, but it is not matter, it is energy, this is why it is seperate from matter.
Energy can not be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another.
Therefore when a nuclear reactor converts matter into heat energy this is simply an example of energy changing from on state (matter) to another (heat)
Steve
Hey Steve, Nice post, It looks like you're trying to recap and simplify things but I totally disagree with this statement:
To my understanding it's exactly the opposite. Energy is derived from matter. In fact the most simplified explanation possible is: Energy is vibrating matter. The vibration was set in motion with the big bang and will continue until the end or our continuum. Even the plastic surrounding your keyboard has vibrating molecules in it waiting to be released somehow. You can't stop them (absolute zero aside).Quote:
Matter is just a form of energy
Einstein's equation is not as straight forward as it looks. In contemporary physics the energy -mass relation is only good at doing conversions. It's more like, wherever there is mass then there is energy and wherever there is energy there is mass - not just that energy will always equal mass. But it does say Energy is Mass not Mass is Energy.
Hmm particles… one could argue that mass is made of energy because when you break it down mass is made up of matter and the building blocks of matter are atoms. Atoms have energy in themselves but they are just charged physical particles moving (vibrating) around. At their ground energy level they just set there happily humming away.
But we can change this state and produce energy from the matter of the atom. For instance, if one takes away some of the energy, the nucleus can no longer hold onto all of its electrons and they no longer bind to the atom and float away. The atom becomes ionized. If you add energy to an atom, such as introducing photons from light or colliding it with another atom it becomes excited and vibrates even more. Possibly colliding with more atoms and adding to their own energy levels.