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 Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 3:52 pm
Whoever took a intro to chemistry and actually payed attention learned that all matter when taken to its most minimal components are actually energy (or strings depending). Going on that basis everything around us is energy, air water our skin organs etc. Have you ever asked yourself what differentiates matter from pure energy such as sunlight? Is it atomic structure? Please post, I have a follow up question Id like to ask.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:54 pm
I don't have an answer but I'm interested in this topic.
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:34 am
I know what your trying to ask, but your trying to compare radiation to solid matter. It doesn't work. If you asking what the difference between pure energy and and solid matter, I think I have an answer.
Imagine you spray some water into a zero gravity environment. The water molecules are bouncing around here and there. Now imagine that the molecules are now condensing into droplets, that form with other droplets to make bigger and bigger droplets. Then they solidify into crystals, all different kinds of crystals. And then those crystals clump together to make a ball. So on and so forth up the scale.
confused xp Just think of matter as a condensed version of energy!
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:29 pm
Thats not exactly what i mean but part yes, were all matter what differentiates us?
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:57 am
Joreph Thats not exactly what i mean but part yes, were all matter what differentiates us? We are all energy but the difference is the quantity of energy and how that energy is organized and the state it is in.
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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:17 pm
Thats actually the answer i was looking for. When we talk about energy we also understand that our minds communicate through pure energy right (electrical signals)? So our thoughts our emotions our very ideas are energy! In fact we are surrounded by a magnetic field. So what Im going at here is that what if theres a way to manipulate this energy... Like the old myths and legends of magic, maybe their not too out of place in a modern word maybe they are just misunderstandings of our modern world since we dont know how to do it. What do you think?
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:15 am
Jokeph Ryun Thats actually the answer i was looking for. When we talk about energy we also understand that our minds communicate through pure energy right (electrical signals)? So our thoughts our emotions our very ideas are energy! In fact we are surrounded by a magnetic field. So what Im going at here is that what if theres a way to manipulate this energy... Like the old myths and legends of magic, maybe their not too out of place in a modern word maybe they are just misunderstandings of our modern world since we dont know how to do it. What do you think? That could easily be, I mean take someone from now-a-days and give them a techie gadget and let them go back in time to show it off to the populace and they'll think that individual is a god/magician/etc. and has mystical powers. "magic" may be nothing more than a technological way to manipulate the fundamental bits of nature, it is just that we haven't reach such a technological understanding of things to be able to do it. As a possible example (note I'm just taking this off the top of my head), say you have a futuristic item that creates a small fusion reaction that simply releases all its energy and then is done and the reaction stops. Could this be mistaken as being a individual creating a magical fireball or something? I would assume the sudden release of energy could act that way and appear like an explosion. The thing will be that you will need to recreate the 'magical' effect in some scientific/technological way that would be consistent with the observable magic way. For example making the fireball above if the device is say the size of a refrigerator wouldn't work as it has to be small enough to appear to come straight from the individual. Anyway, just my thought based on your idea.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:42 pm
Well, I had been reading The Elegant Universe one day before my Physics class, and when we were on the subject of the work-energy theorem and the Law of Conservation of Energy, I brought up that Brian Greene states that if you have two corresponding particles, one normal and the other anti-matter, then the two will combine to create pure energy. And so, I posed the question, "Can't matter be converted into energy and vise versa?" and my teacher gave me a look like I just asked where babies come from.
The answer lies in E = MC^2. The equation, using the components that would generally create energy -- mass, distance squared (area), and time squared -- had created a theorem by means of the purest elements of the universe, including energy (E), mass (M), and the speed of light (C).
On one side of the equation, you have energy. On the other, you have mass. The equal sign in between states that energy can equal mass when mass is multiplied by the speed of light squared.
Anyway, I should get going. I have to do my Physics homework due tomorrow on torque. How tedious!
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:45 pm
E = MC^2!!
energy is equal to mass times celerity(speed of light) squared!!
a tiiiiiiiny amount of matter (an atom) multiplied by a biiiiiiig thing (the very fast speed of light) equals a looooot of energy (atom bomb)
An atom bomb destroys matter, therefore creating energy. Don't you people know anything?
Tiny matter X speed of light = BIG BOOM
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:47 pm
BTW, according to String Theory, all matter is made out of tiny, vibrating, one-dimensional strings. The frequency of such determines the amount of energy and the properties.
*sigh*
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:37 am
Yeahhh hit it on the head with E=mc^2 !
Mass and energy are interchangable. You can't destroy one or the other, only convert it.
They don't know how energy becomes mass... they speculate there is a particle called the 'Higgs Boson', they're aiming to find it (amongst other things) with the LHC. (I think). If they found it, it would explain how massless particles can come together and be... well, mass! solid stuff!
Also... there's no such thing as 'pure energy' really. Yes our brain 'thinks' by electrical energy... just electrical pulses fired along nerves. There are many different types of energy. Potential, elastic, gravitational, chemical, heat, light, sound, electrical...
Also, the string theory is what it says; a THEORY!! there are many speculations as to what really is down at that level. I for one think the string theory is right, but don't just blindly believe it!
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:54 am
Freaj Yeahhh hit it on the head with E=mc^2 ! Mass and energy are interchangable. You can't destroy one or the other, only convert it. They don't know how energy becomes mass... they speculate there is a particle called the 'Higgs Boson', they're aiming to find it (amongst other things) with the LHC. (I think). If they found it, it would explain how massless particles can come together and be... well, mass! solid stuff! Also... there's no such thing as 'pure energy' really. Yes our brain 'thinks' by electrical energy... just electrical pulses fired along nerves. There are many different types of energy. Potential, elastic, gravitational, chemical, heat, light, sound, electrical... Also, the string theory is what it says; a THEORY!! there are many speculations as to what really is down at that level. I for one think the string theory is right, but don't just blindly believe it! Don't forget that there is also various forms of the string theory stating how many dimensions there really are, etc. But like anything else it'll just take time and experimentation to see what pans out as more solid and what gets shoved to the disproved pile.
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