You might be wasting keyboard time in explaining all this to me? However, I am guessing that the way we all use the word, energy, is that we may be meaning vastly different things. The phrase from physics "when matter uncoupled from energy of the Big Bang," Or should we be referring to Carnot cycles, or Watts, or micro-Kelvan's? When I think of energy, I think of movement, or flow. When I think of matter, I think of bound things like atoms or molecules, where the flow is very slow. John, if you need to face-palm yourself and move on from my questionings, please do so, as life can be aggravating, enough.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Feb 14, 2016 12:54 pm Subject: Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO! On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 9:34 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > You know, I have never heard a decent definition of what energy is? I learnt in grade school was that energy was the ability to do work. You need energy to do work but you can never use all the energy you have to do work no matter how good your technology is, much of it is always wasted. With today's machines usually less than 40% of the energy can do work; electric motors do better than that but you waste a lot of energy converting heat or motion or sunlight into electricity. > Yah! Now that sounds really, scientific, not. I refined the definition, to be "matter in motion." The energy of motion is half of the mass of the matter times the velocity of motion squared. If it's at rest it still has energy, it's the mass times the speed of light squared. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
