When I was at primary school, so many years ago, we as students were taught that energy is simply a value for the ability to do work.
wiki states:
The question for me is then how is it that science requires the need to grant energy substance?
What is the reality of energy having a potential for mass rather than just mass having the potential for energy?
We know that Mass has the potential to deliver energy but I wonder how we can state the opposite that energy has the potential to deliver mass?
We believe that the Energy / mass equivalence, as suggested by A. Einstein, implies equality between mass and energy, but does it also imply symmetry or reciprocation [reversal]
Explainer:
We can observer objects of mass performing work but as far as I know we have not observed Energy creating mass.
Simply put:
Does:
E = mc^2 equal mc^2 = E [or it's later derivatives and generations]
So I question the context that the equivalance of energy and mass is used in.
Care to discuss?
wiki states:
However the same wiki article also refers to energy delivered by way of "radiation" which is where it appears that energy has acquired a "substance" rather than being a mere value or potential to do work.In physics, energy (Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια energeia "activity, operation"[1]) is an indirectly observed quantity that is often understood as the ability of a physical system to do work on other physical systems.[2][3] Since work is defined as a force acting through a distance (a length of space), energy is always equivalent to the ability to exert pulls or pushes against the basic forces of nature, along a path of a certain length
The question for me is then how is it that science requires the need to grant energy substance?
What is the reality of energy having a potential for mass rather than just mass having the potential for energy?
We know that Mass has the potential to deliver energy but I wonder how we can state the opposite that energy has the potential to deliver mass?
We believe that the Energy / mass equivalence, as suggested by A. Einstein, implies equality between mass and energy, but does it also imply symmetry or reciprocation [reversal]
Explainer:
We can observer objects of mass performing work but as far as I know we have not observed Energy creating mass.
Simply put:
Does:
E = mc^2 equal mc^2 = E [or it's later derivatives and generations]
So I question the context that the equivalance of energy and mass is used in.
Care to discuss?