Another question...

[RhumbRunner13]

Well..... that's the theory....



but...


They are also just two forms of the same thing..... ( another theory)

Hmmm, I'm not sure that they are THE SAME thing. One can be converted to the other but does that really mean they are just different forms of one thing?

Has anyone ever produced mass from energy?

Think about the fusion of hydrogen to helium, the resultant change in mass and the energy produced with the combination of two nuclii into one nucleous.

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Pop quiz in the morning!

 

[MinkSoul]

Hmmm, I'm not sure that they are THE SAME thing. One can be converted to the other but does that really mean they are just different forms of one thing?

Has anyone ever produced mass from energy?

Plants do

 

[SpectralDragoon]

w00t!

go ATP, NADPH2, photosynthesis, kreb cycles, and transpiration or something.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Plants do

Plants use light in the process of photosynthisis but I'm not sure that that is converting energy to mass as much as using light as a catylist in a chemical reaction. I don't THINK the energy is actually converted...??

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[Cheyenne]

The Republicans Marxist is yapping about would be very disappointed to use this thread as an example from a porn board. I think they'd end up using it for a high school science class instead of support for eliminating adult sites.

That said, you people are giving me a headache. It is Saturday! Why are you thinking so hard?

 

[MinkSoul]

RhumbRunner.... You're right.... that was a dumb example...


They have been doing it (creating mass from energy) at the supercolliders like CERN.... they get a proton and an anti-proton or an electron and a positron.... sometimes they anialate each other and turn back into energy.... but sometimes they don't....
I know.... not a very big deal... a proton ain't all that big.... but they have done it....


Also.... I've read somewhere that the sun produces a bunch of neutrinos as a byproduct of some reaction going on in there... If i find it again I'll put it here..... or something...


and


Cheyenne..... To me.... talking about this stuff is fun...




....Yes..... i AM wierd...

 

[MinkSoul]

Just incase anyone's still interested...

The good news(for me at least) is.... Yes.... stars do make neutrinos...


The bad news is..... they're just stripped down protons...

It turns out that all the matter (stuff with mass) was made about 14 billion years ago and the stars have been turning little bits of it back into energy..... once they got going....


And.... I've come to the conclusion that the answer to my origonal question is....


no


Everything is as you see it...

So.... we can let this little thread float off into oblivion...

Thank you for your time..... sorry if i wasted it...

 

[RhumbRunner13]

RhumbRunner.... You're right.... that was a dumb example...


They have been doing it (creating mass from energy) at the supercolliders like CERN.... they get a proton and an anti-proton or an electron and a positron.... sometimes they anialate each other and turn back into energy.... but sometimes they don't....
I know.... not a very big deal... a proton ain't all that big.... but they have done it....


Also.... I've read somewhere that the sun produces a bunch of neutrinos as a byproduct of some reaction going on in there... If i find it again I'll put it here..... or something...


and


Cheyenne..... To me.... talking about this stuff is fun...




....Yes..... i AM wierd...[/]i

From what I can quickly read the combination of any particle/antiparticle creats energy only. Neutrinos, like photons, appear to be massless and one source thought that the mass of a neutrino squared would be a negative number. This leads to the theory that one of the three neutrino forms might actually be a proposed "tachyon", a particle that always moves faster than the speed of light! Neutrinos have been confirmed in the deep earth experiments looking for other particles, but still remain the least understood of elemental particles. I still could find no instance of creating mass from nothing but energy.

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[Cheyenne]

Cheyenne..... To me.... talking about this stuff is fun...




....Yes..... i AM wierd...

hehe, I already knew that. Just teasing you, you know. I had to have some way to cover that I didn't know what the hell you're talking about, didn't I?