Despite the familiarity of E=mc², most people really don’t know what it stands for. The great Einstein discovered that matter and energy are one and the same but are merely expressed in a different form i.e. matter can be turned into energy and vice versa. E represents energy created, m is the mass of the converted material and c is the velocity of light. The energy created from any different kind of atom is the same. If this is the case, then the universe must be made from only one material i.e. energy. If the universe is made out of this one material, then the conversion of atomic and sub- atomic matter of our body will also result in this universal energy. Can we conclude that we are all somehow connected to each other? In that case, why do we humans destroy each other?
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The E = mc² connection
Despite the familiarity of E=mc², most people really don’t know what it stands for. The great Einstein discovered that matter and energy are one and the same but are merely expressed in a different form i.e. matter can be turned into energy and vice versa. E represents energy created, m is the mass of the converted material and c is the velocity of light. The energy created from any different kind of atom is the same. If this is the case, then the universe must be made from only one material i.e. energy. If the universe is made out of this one material, then the conversion of atomic and sub- atomic matter of our body will also result in this universal energy. Can we conclude that we are all somehow connected to each other? In that case, why do we humans destroy each other?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Do the world we live in really exist?
I can’t help wondering how we humans would perceive our surroundings if we only had 2 or 3 senses. Doesn’t it make sense that we would then see our surroundings different from what it appears to us now? Perhaps, a different dimension altogether, outside the visualizing capacity of our limited sensory state. Assuming we develop mental imageries of our enclosure from the input of our 5 senses, would it then be equally valid to argue that an unknown entity with say 8 or more senses could exist in a parallel time zone with us but in a different dimension? In that case, does our world exist for our eyes only?
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