Re: THE MEANING OF E = MC^2
- From: "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:34:46 GMT
<vergon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Igor wrote:
| > vergon@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > >>
| > > "Energy" is mass in motion.
| >
| > Oh, I'm sorry! That's not the true definition of energy. Give this
| > guy the consolation prize and get him off stage. He's had his fifteen
| > minutes of ignominious fame and we're not going to allow him back until
| > he can learn some actual physics.
|
| VERGON
|
| Of course there is the definition that energy is the ability to do
| work.
|
| However, there are other ways of looking at it that are not necessarily
| wrong.
|
| It is this ability to look at things from different angles that
| separates the men from the boys.
True enough.
|
| Of course, those with not too much ability feel exposed if exact
| definitions are not used. They feel uncertain and out of their depth
| --- and they are because they do not have the ability to see the big
| picture. Einstein called it "musicality" --- you either had the ability
| or you didn't. Apparently you don't.
|
| As a generality, saying energy is mass in motion is just another way of
| looking at it --- another slant, This is a characteristic of creative
| thinking. You either have it or you don't
Surely intelligent perception has greater weight than wild imagination!
Since when did science require creative thinking?
Androcles.
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