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Originally Posted by harmonygirl Michael, great idea! before we unite the way forces are viewed (and I have thought that there are just 2 fundamental forces, with "waves" being the result of an on-going balancing act), don't we need to talk about the "wavicle"? I think that matter is just energy slowed down, so what are the implications for light, etc.? |
Very true, I also believe matter is (ultimatelly) energy. What do you mean by 'slowed down', does it refer to motion (speed)? As matter gets faster, it becomes energy, that we know thanks to Einstein, so really it should be that matter is when it's slowed down, energy, just that it's 'rest energy'. This would have nothing to do with the energy of E=mc^2, though. I believe we should explain light in terms of neither particle nor wave, nor by both. We should find out somehow a new concept. one thing I wonder is if matter is energy, then how come in QED light destroyes when it enters in contact with matter, is it that matter 'absorbs' the photon's energy (which is actually all of what the photon is)?