B Can we say that everything on the planet is made up of energy or matter?

[EVANDRUH]

According to what we can verify and experience among the various questions of modern physics, can we somehow affirm that everything on the planet is made up of energy or matter? Can it somehow be partially affirmed, always aiming at the explanations of modern physics studied until then?

 

[pines-demon]

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can we somehow affirm that everything on the planet is made up of energy or matter?

Kind of depends on what you mean by everything. I mean a shadow is neither. Maybe you mean that every physical phenomena can be explained with matter and energy flows? Sure.

 

[Ibix]

Can it somehow be partially affirmed,

Worth noting that the answer to this is "no", as a matter of principle. @pines-demon puts it well: all phenomena we are familiar with are explicable in a model where the Earth is made of matter, of which energy is one property. That doesn't necessarily mean it's true, but given the high precision and wide range of modern experiment, it does mean that the gaps where anything else could hide are very, very small.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Matter and energy are in entirely different categories. Matter is present naturally. Energy is a property of matter. It's also a property many other things.

You may be thinking that mass and matter are synonymous, they are not. It was thought at one time that mass is a measure of the quantity of matter, but Einstein's mass-energy equivalence implies that is not.

 

[pervect]

According to what we can verify and experience among the various questions of modern physics, can we somehow affirm that everything on the planet is made up of energy or matter? Can it somehow be partially affirmed, always aiming at the explanations of modern physics studied until then?

Interpreting this as a request fore "edge cases", something that we think could exist that might not fall into one of these two categories, consider the cosmological constant in General Relativity. We postulate it's existence because observations suggest the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate.

Would one consider this to be a form of "energy"? It has been called "dark energy", so perhaps the answer is yes, but it's not like we can point to some particle that produces it. "Dark Matter" has some similar issues. We think dark matter exists because of the galactic rotation curves, something that neither Newtonian theory or General relativity can explain based on observed matter. These are the two things I think of right off the top of my head - I'm not so familiar with "edge cases" in other fields.

 

[gmax137]

The stars are matter
We're matter
But it doesn't matter

- Don van Vliet