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Originally Posted by harmonygirl Rufus, I am not sure that I believe that our concept of energy is necessarily in error. I agree that "old" science is too narrow and I am also not comfortable with it. It's an interesting question, though, what does happen to our notion of energy if matter has been fundamentally misconstrued by us? |
Harmonygirl
Thankyou for your response, sorry I didn't see this last night I turned in early. Perhaps I am wrong in this but I usually say that the definition of energy is the movement of matter. This is easy to see with inertia, kenitic energy, centrifical force and things like that but harder to visualize with convection, conduction and electrical energy. Theoretically all matter stops moving at absolute zero and the energy then is considered to be only potential. Feel free to correct me in any of this.
Standard theory accepts or states that electrons are constructed of particles of matter that move from one polar region to their opposite, supplying energy to the load. Also, present day atomic theory visualizes motion within the atom of strings or quarks, protons, neutrons or whatever. I'm not actually sure what the latest accepted version is, what with M-theory or U-theory and perhaps someone could straighten me out on this.
At any rate, if our concept of matter is wrong then it seems to follow that our concept of energy must be too.