2007-05-24 00:20:59 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It is all an illusion ... but one that suits us fine as our brains are built to experience 'matter' as 'solid'.
Really, matter only starts to break down into it's constituent energy when it gets probed on the very small scale with high power instrumentation.
In day to day life, the 'forces' like electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces are dominant and keep solid things behaving as normal - the world our brain expects.
Only in particle accelerators or other exotic environments does the true nature of the atomic and subatomic world show itself - when all that is solid melts into air ...
2007-05-24 03:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can anything NOT exist if everything is pure energy? If energy exists, matter will exist. Everything is oscillating strings of energy on different wavelengths.
Is it all an illusion? I bloody hope so.
2007-05-24 07:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein said matter and energy are equivalent, not the same thing as idenitcal. One can be 'changed' into another easily (in terms of physics, though not practically). So matter exists, as does energy and they are different but equivalent.
2007-05-24 07:26:04 · answer #3 · answered by david345333 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a rather loose analogy, consider water. At different temperatures, it has different properties. That is, it can be a gas, in which case you can't hold it. It can be a liquid, in which case you can fill a glass with it. It can be a solid, in which case you can lay it in the palm of your hand. The differing states of water allow you to interact with it in different ways. Energy when it is bound up as matter allows for a different form of interaction.
2007-05-24 07:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everthing is made of either energy or matter. Matter is either solid, liquid or gas. Energy effects everything though, and will change the states of matter.
2007-05-24 07:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by Mickey M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because energy can be converted to mass
2007-05-24 07:23:37 · answer #6 · answered by cool girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not that every thing is made of pure energy. energy can be converted into mass and vice versa. or else you can say mass is another form of energy or energy is another form of mass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-05-24 07:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by psrmail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet it is. Energy and matter and information co-exist.
2007-05-24 07:35:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
who told you everything is made of pure energy, it's not
example, you can't use rocks for fuel!
2007-05-24 07:23:56 · answer #9 · answered by Jody W 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Light has energy and no mass. What's the big deal ???
2007-05-24 08:05:17 · answer #10 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋