Another One: E->M->G

[cosmicDASD]

Is mass coagulated energy?

I mean, if you have a mass, and you convert it directly to pure energy (fusion?) does it lose it's capacity to generate gravity?

If so, then pure energy should be free to wander in and out of our gravity bound "cosmic bubble." Yes?

[juju]

Hi,

The way I see it is that mass, charge, magnetic moment, etc are just a bound symmetry states of a universal field matrix underlying space/time. This is not the standard view. Mass itself I see as bound by the spin symmetry of the particle in question.

When these states are unbound they change into energy. This energy should still have some effect on the basic field symmetry configurations responsible for gravity.

juju

[selfAdjoint]

As you say, this is not a standard view. The standard view is that mass comes from two sources, Higgs interactions, and binding energy of gluons in the two particles, protons and neutrons, that make up nearly all the "baryonic" mass in the universe. 'Course that's only about 7% of the total. Nobody knows what dark matter is made of, but it gravitates. And dark energy is not mass at all.

Some writers have called matter "frozen energy", but that idea, which stresses relativity without quantum mechanics, is out of date.

[cosmicDASD]

Thanks for both answers.

I'll look more into Higgs interactions and "binding energy of gluons".

That is a very interesting view, JuJu, and, if I understand it :bugeye: along the lines of my thinking.

Now that I've found these forums, I can get back to reading my general interest science books. While in our graduation system*, I never found someone who could explain trigonometry to me, let alone quantum mechanics.

While in the books, I always come up with questions which distract from the presentation.

Thanks,
-CD

(*Graduation system is much more apt than education system, don't you think? :rolleyes: )