Friday, June 20, 2008

week four energy, matter and the four forces

How has e=mc2 affected me?
On a very deep level, I cringe with knowing the effects that it can have on us through the combination of power and maybe greed. Maybe it was all the grade school years of practicing for a bomb threat that have come back to me when asked how this equation has affected me.
In reality, it is extremely important to remember that I can affect my energy by being aware of it and doing some basic monitoring of it in order to keep it moving through out the day. Practicing some form of meditation or qi gong is a goal to work on my energy with the help of a daily practice. I think it helps energize me to loose weight and build muscle - knowing I can affect my mass and energy in positive ways - that they are connected.

How to compare the four forces?
Comparable to peeling an onion, the outer layer of the onion keeps it all together in a similar way that gravity keeps everything in place in the universe. It is the force of attraction that is acting on every particle with another in nature. Going out to the weak nuclear force - this one is about working with the chemical elements in stars and supernova activities. They are like the clean up crew after a concert. Retrieving the garbage and sorting through it. The strong nuclear force is responsible for the force that powers the stars. Because of this huge bond that the nuclear force has it either keeps vast amounts of energy together or fused or its the power that is released with a fission reaction. Whew something like that anyway. The electromagnetic force is the one responsible for light being absorbed or emitted. We can see this in solar incidences like the sun dogs we see in Minnesota on a very cold day on either side of the sun.

Gravity is such an enormous force that keeps the whole solar system rotating and orbiting in an orderly fashion. This force also holds the energy in other galaxies in their place. It is a pull that draws masses of energy together and holds it while the multitude of planets, starts and energy in a solar system do their dance.

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