In plain terms, energy has gravity.
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OrangePumkin@piefed.nl 3 weeks agoDon’t understand this bit.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MastKalandar@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Energy has gravity ??
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
the simple forms of conservation you probably learned in school are not entirely accurate. you probably learned that neither energy not matter can be created or destroyed; whatever you do, the mass you begin with will be the same as the mass you end with, and the same is true, separately, for energy. that’s not actually true; mass can be converted into energy, and vice versa. the correct form of conservation is that the combined mass-energy is constant. mass can be destroyed, but only if a proportional amount of energy is created. the coefficient of that proportionality is the square of the speed of light. that’s what E=mc² means. that’s how nuclear weapons work, and why they’re so powerful. c² is obviously a pretty big value, so when a small amount of matter is destroyed, it creates a large amount of energy
similarly, energy can be converted into mass, but doing so makes it much “smaller.” c² units of energy will become 1 unit of mass. and mass, of course, interacts with space-time
OrangePumkin@piefed.nl 3 weeks ago
You explain beautifully the reason why Shakti (energy) is the Divine Consort of Shiva (the overseer of destruction) according to Vedic philosophy.
MastKalandar@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
This is a very interesting theory.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re on the right track.
Mass is a property of matter, they’re not the same thing.
A water molecule is the same matter as two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen, yet the molecule has less mass. The difference comes from the energy released when the molecule is formed. Fusion is the same, forcing two atoms together releases a neutron with lots of energy. Same matter, less mass.
It’s the opposite with fission. One atom splits into two and two really fast neutrons, and the total mass is less than the original atom. The matter isn’t destroyed, but some of its mass is converted into energy.
Matter can be destroyed by annihilating it with antimatter, but that hardly counts because we have to make the antimatter by turning energy back into mass and that also creates an equal amount of matter.