sidelined writes:
2ic_baked_taters writes:
sidelined writes:
What do you mean that it changes form?
Energy to matter/matter to energy
or more accurately matter being energy in a specific state
"the amount of matter remains the same"
This current paradigm seems to *confuse* everyone but physicists (
http://explorepdx.com/bitofsci.html):
1) "Matter is substance; something we
perceive" (albeit solid, liquid, gas).
Metaphysical reality as well as physical seems invoked by the word 'perceive'. Hence the physicist's frustration.
2) "Mass is an abstraction related to forces and interactions of matter with matter."
Seeing matter is perceptual and metaphysical (by definition) I'm not convinced that matter truly remains the same, perhaps even in your isolated examples. However, matter might remain invulnerable from your philosophical viewpoint (I don't know).
Then (*of course*) there's *The Reality of Antimatter* (
Sun) "created and annihilated in stars every day"*
Quoting Robert Britt (from 2003):
"To better understand the elusive nature of antimatter, we must back up to the beginning of time.
In the first seconds after the Big Bang,
there was no matter, scientists suspect. Just energy. As the universe expanded and cooled, particles of regular matter and antimatter were formed in almost equal amounts..."
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