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I have remarked here a few times that what we think of as matter, isn't entirely matter at all.<br /><br />The constituent quarks, and gluons and whatnot in matter, are in motion. And it turns out, their motion is quite vigorous, and their energy of motion, when run through Einstein's famous equation, E=MC2, turns out to be a significant portion of 'matter'.<br /><br />Matter isn't entirely matter, it is actually considerably augmented by energy.<br /><br />Energy seems (so far) to be a 'pure' fluid (if you will). But 'matter' is a hybrid, or composite construct.<br /><br />When matter spirals into a blackhole, a great deal of energy is released. Are we seeing the component energy of matter being 'wrung' out of the infalling material by the constiction of the black hole?<br /><br />When hydrogen fuses to helium, (IIRC) .7% of the matter is converted to energy. Perhaps more correctly, the new configuration of the helium nucleus has a surplus of constituent particle kinetic energy, which we observe being released in the reaction. <br /><br /> Matter hasn't really been converted into energy in either case, as an analogy, water in a sponge can be wrung out, no part of the spoinge itself changes into water. So to, the constituent kinetic energy of the particles in matter can sometimes be squeazed out, but the'matter matter' remains.<br /><br /><br />{If this is all obvious to physicists, and you feel compelled to skewer me here, be gentle}<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>