Light and Matter (Origins)

by David Turell @, Tuesday, May 27, 2014, 21:55 (3594 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw: Why is this experiment so important?
> DAVID: It proved a theoretical proposition from many years earlier.
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> Dhw:The experiment hasn't yet taken place. -But from the description it will work just fine. 
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> As a non-scientist I can only compare what you tell me with what I discover from other sources. If it boils down to definition, there seems to be no such thing as "pure energy" unless someone wants to call it pure ... as you have done so far with plasma, photons and electrons, all of which have been defined elsewhere as matter. We know matter contains and produces energy, but do we know that energy creates matter? .... How does this make energy and matter "interchangeable"?-Please go back to the theories about this universe. Matter came from plasma as particles appeared and built up, and we can extract energy from matter where the energy is hiding.
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> Dhw: [...] let me first ask you directly whether, in view of all the above, you yourself do or do not find the so-called interchangeability of energy and matter confusing.
> DAVID: Not at all.
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> Am I right, then, in supposing that your confidence relates to a concept of "pure energy" that is based on subjective definition plus faith in an as yet unproven theory? (Again, this is a genuine question, not an argument.)-Yes you are. The experiment is well thought out. No faith required. Photons are parts of many particles, and there are other subatomic processes where they are released


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