Fons Wils 0101
Looking for the origin of things...
By this, I mean that we are looking for the origin of the laws of physics. How are we going to do that? In the past physicists didn’t look for the reasons why, because that was too difficult. Now, when we are looking for the origin, we must be aware of what questions need to be asked. And one of the most difficult questions to answer is: "Where do the formulae for energy come from?"
(E) is the symbol for energy. And in physics there are three different formulae to express energy. The first one is: E = h ν, where (h),
The second formula for expressing energy in physics is (E = p C) where (p), the impulse, is multiplied by C, the speed of light.
And lastly, the most well-known formula is the one that is always used when we talk about physics, namely: E = MC², where energy is matter (m is mass) multiplied by the speed of light squared. This means that one gram of mass produces the amount of energy that we saw when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima. In other words, matter contains a great deal of energy.
So we have these three formulae, but nobody knows where they come from.
Another aspect of physics which is very difficult to understand is that when we look for the properties of matter, we hit a "lower border" where we no longer know what the properties of matter are. For example, when we look for the energy of elementary matter, we find that we cannot know in which time it occurs. This is what we call the "uncertainty principle". According to this uncertainty principle, it is impossible to determine exactly the properties of matter.
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