Is sunshine matter?

Answer 1

No. The light from the sun is energy. One way to tell the difference between matter and energy is to ask yourself this question: Can you get a jar full of it? No, you cannot have a jar full of sunshine and save it for a rainy day. You cannot have a jar full of sound, or a jar full of electricity. Those are energy. You can have a jar full of salt, air, water, or sugar. Those are matter.

Answer 2

It used to be said that all matter had energy but the latest theory - string theory - shows that all matter is energy compressed. This becomes obvious in the light of fact that a small amount of explosive will give off an enormous amount of energy when it is 'decompressed'.

Therefore, all matter is energy compressed.

To answer your question, yes, sunlight - energy from the sun - is matter if you take that energy is just uncompressed matter. (The matter of the sun has become uncompressed and the energy is released as light and heat.)

Answer 3

Sunlight in the broad sense is the total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun. On Earth, sunlight is filtered through the atmosphere, and the solar radiation is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon. This is usually during the hours known as day. Near the poles in summer, sunlight also occurs during the hours known as night and in the winter at the poles sunlight may not occur at any time. When the direct radiation is not blocked by clouds, it is experienced as sunshine, a combination of bright light and heat. Radiant heat directly produced by the radiation of the sun is different from the increase in atmospheric temperature due to the radiative heating of the atmosphere by the sun's radiation.

The World Meteorological Organization defines sunshine as direct irradiance from the Sun measured on the ground of at least 120 W·m−2.

Direct sunlight gives about 93 lumens of illumination per watt of electromagnetic power, including infrared, visible, and ultra-violet. This compares with the best fluorescent lights.

The sun's nuclear energy source was discovered by Hans Bethe.

It is important to note that excessive sunlight exposure has been linked to all types of skin cancer, which are caused by the ultraviolet part of radiation contained in sunlight and sunlamps. Sunburns are mild to severe inflammation effects to the skin and can be avoided by using a proper sunscreen cream or lotion or by gradually building up melanocytes over days and weeks of increasing exposure. Another detrimental effect of UV exposure is accelerated skin aging (also called skin photodamage), which produces a rather ugly and difficult to treat cosmetic effect. The decrease in the atmosphere's ozone layer in the last decades is increasing the incidence of such health hazards and extra precautions should be taken by people who are exposed daily to strong sunlight.

A lack of sunlight, on the other hand, is considered one of the primary causes of seasonal affective disorder, a serious form of the "winter blues". SAD occurrence is noticed more prevalently the further away from the tropics the sample is taken, and most of the treatments (other than prescription drugs) involve replicating sunlight. This replication is done using lamps tuned to specific wavelengths of light or full-spectrum bulbs.

There are two further beneficial effects of sunlight. Firstly it upregulates the manufacture of vitamin D in humans when sunlight is incident upon skin surfaces. Secondly, the use of sunlight in lieu of artificial light to illuminate building interiors avoids certain adverse health effects of over-illumination by electric lights as well as promoting energy conservation.

Answer 4

sunshine would be considered energy

Answer 5

No, sunshine is radiant energy.

Answer 6

I don't know but I think sometimes it behaves like matter.

Answer 7

no, its energy. (heat)