how do you define energy GUILLE?
how do you define energy GUILLE?
Well, I'm still working on my definition,which I want to be both equational and lingusitic. I still have many things to develop my own thought, because I've been working for only one year on physics, and this is why I still have much left, but I will post everything I come up with gradially.Originally Posted by subversion
Now, you may be asking, then, what is that makes be think that the thermodinamicall definition of energy is wrong. Well, there is an easy answer: heat is an energy (not only according to me, but thermodinamics itself), and heat, in my opinion, and I beleive in everyone elses' opinion (at least those who have common sense, logic, and intuition), heat, neither in the physical or common-use definition, is NOT "the ability to do work". So, it doesn't enter in the definition of energy, so it isn't an energy, but, as we know, heat is an energy. This is the paradox. And, by the way, actually, heat can be said to be the opposite of the thermodinamicall definiton of energy, because when you have heat, you can't do much work, so it is the "dis-ability to do work", that's why we have such a big summer vacation in school (here in Spain, mosts schools have 3 months vacation, because it's sooooo hot!).
I hope that paragraph helped.
I will make a post tomorrow in this same thread about, what, hypothetically, I think that energy is and can be described/defined as (I'm just about to go out with some frineds, when I'm back it will be tomorrow already!).
Last edited by Guille; 08-06-2005 at 04:44 AM.
I don't have a definition of Energy, but I thionk that energy could be made of particles. All kind of energy. But these particles have mass and spaceless (they don't occupy space), and timeless (they exist forever). The first property is what shows that when a something gains energy it also gains mass. The second property shows that when something gains energy doesn't have to get bigger. The third property shows that energy cannot be destroyed or created, when you change an energy to an other, it is a metamorphosis that occurs to the energy particles that I will explain in a post in a few days.
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