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I always hear that when protons slam together, they annihilate into pure energy. Then that energy sometimes reforms into other particles. How does that make any sense? Energy is just an arbitrary mathematical quantity.
What ever gave you the idea that energy is an arbitrary mathematical quantity? The conservation law means nothing to you?I always hear that when protons slam together, they annihilate into pure energy. Then that energy sometimes reforms into other particles. How does that make any sense? Energy is just an arbitrary mathematical quantity.
That's what the guy said after he got struck by lightning.I always hear that when protons slam together, they annihilate into pure energy. Then that energy sometimes reforms into other particles. How does that make any sense? Energy is just an arbitrary mathematical quantity.
It isn't anything "physical"? Give me an example of what you think is "physical", and I'll show you "energy".I mean it isn't anything physical. It's just the ability to something. The way I've heard this explained, there is a sort of physical energy that floats around after the collision and just sometimes transforms into particles.
And you buy that?I feel like you know what I mean though. You don't get hurt by energy when struck by lighting, you get hurt by electrons flowing through your body, which is an imperfect conductor, bumping into things, which increases the atom's and molecule's kinetic motion. This irregular heat, or kinetic motion, is part of what harms you. A calculation of total energy will tell you how much current, the physical process, will flow through your body. A while ago i asked why string theory was sometimes explained in terms of vibrating strings of energy. The posters came to a conclusion that it was for lack of a better word, and that energy was not a physical entity.
Electronics work due to quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics, if you care to learn it, is all about understanding the kinetic and potential energy term in the Hamiltonian. That is the starting point in describing any system.In your example, electronics work due to the electromagnetic force and the fact that electrons repel each other. The higher the electron pressure, voltage, in a sense, the more they physically want to get away from each other. Electricity is just a domino effect of electrons moving within a conductor. Energy is just a way to quantify what we will see happen in the physical world.
I won't get into whether or not energy is "physical" or not.I always hear that when protons slam together, they annihilate into pure energy. Then that energy sometimes reforms into other particles.
See this response makes more sense to me. Which is usually the case with Drakkith :).I won't get into whether or not energy is "physical" or not.
I will say that at no point is there energy just "floating" out there and it "sometimes" reforms into other particles. ALL of the energy of the collision is conserved. Some of it is turned into mass as particles are created, some of it is given to these particles as kinetic energy, and the rest is radiated away as EM radiation.
Mmmm.....maybe. If that volume of space contains EM radiation we might be able to say that. And I don't even want to get started on things like vacuum energy...You can't point to an area in space and say, there is some energy.
Because you come off as arrogant and stubborn about topics you know almost nothing about.... well that was a friendly encounter.
Energy and mass are related but they are far from being the same thing. Mathematical equations are not definitions.Energy is equivalent to mass, and therefore as physical as electrons, if not more so, even with your definition of physical