what do you think?????

Question

Recently I thought of an analogy that I thought might be useful for visualizing how energy and mass are equivalent. It will sound simplistic at first, but it becomes more and more powerful as you continue reading.


Say you are standing in front of a portable swimming pool that has walls 2 meters in height and to which your eye level is also exactly 2 meters high. The pool is filled with water to a height of 1.8 meters. You get four of your friends to each stand at a corner of this square pool and tell them to simultaneously drop a bowling ball into their respective corner of the pool. Each bowling ball impacts the water and sends a wave moving outwards from the point of impact towards the pools center (forget about reflections against the pool's walls and the waves that are not emitted towards the pool's center). You then notice that at the exact center of the pool all 4 waves constructively interfere with one another and create a large swell in the water level that peaks in amplitude at a height of 0.3 meters above pool sea level. Standing outside of the pool and looking straight at it with your eye level still at 2 meters in height, you observe this swell of water as rising 0.1 meters above the pools walls (pool walls = 1.8 meters high, swell = 0.3 meters high, your eye level = 2.0 meters high; so [1.8 + 0.3 - 2.0 = 0.1 meters]).

This swell, this peak is analgous to matter!! When enough waves (analogous to energy) overlap and constructively interfere to create a large enough peak amplitude ('swell') for you to observe, you see this amplitude as matter.

With this analogy in mind, picture all the material objects that you are familiar with in your everyday life as being merely comprised of several waves of ElectroMagnetic energy that constructively interfere with one another to such a great degree that their amplitude forms what you perceive to be as matter.

Good analogy or not?
What do you think?

Answer 1

I think it is better to think of the STATES of matter when thinking of the relation between Energy And Matter. Anything with mass is matter. It is better to think that mass is another form of energy like solid water is the same thing as STEAM. It seems to me the big bang might simply be a collision between two very large chunks of matter and antimatter in an otherwise cold dark universe and everything we know today is nothing more then the disturbance that was created is the energy condensing and spreading and trying to seek equilibrium. Energy is some kind of State of Some kind Of thing that not even our brightest scientist understand. The truth is an understanding of the whole that is usually just seen in bits and pieces. You need to somehow combine the various partial truths to arrive at reality. I know this makes me sound Schizophrenic/Euphonic to you but it is the best way I am able to express my thoughts. Your model is too complex, more like how a nuclear weapon might function by convirging energy into a single point. Imagine if terrorists could surround a building wiith several big bombs in a pentagram or hexagram and simultaneous detonate all of them ???

Answer 2

Hi. Constructive interference would generate a peak as you say but the peak is transitory. I have tried to visualize the same thing - mass/energy equivalence - more like a tightly wound spring. SOMETHING is holding whatever particle you think of together. And I can not imagine that its gluons. (I have a real problem with particle exchange as a cause of binding forces anyway. Must be my limited mind!) Thanks for the good question.

Answer 3

I don't know if this is actually how things work since I'm not a physicist, but it SOUNDS good! (But then again bullsh*t beats brains any day, right?)

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 (what the church doesn't want you to know!) at; www.God-101.com
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Answer 4

I like it..... the great detail helps one visualize and transfer it. It is interesting and gives one something to think about.