If God created everything who created God?

Started by Astner10 pages
Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Matter is not energy.

Energy is defined as the relative state of particles; i.e. mass, movement and field displacement.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

Unless we took wholly different physics classes (which is possible), matter, as I was taught, consists of potential energy and has mass, but I took physics in 2002. What is it defined as now?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Mass and potentials (field displacements) are forms of energy that all matter has. But matter itself isn't energy, it's either a particle or a body of particles; which immediately contradicts it as being a particle-state. In the standard model matter is defined by elementary or composite structures of fermions.

The only way to create fermion particle is through pair-production—in which case an anti-particle is created in the process—and the only way to destroy matter is through annihilation—which requires an interaction with an anti-particle.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

So, if I'm remembering correctly, energy can not be created or destroyed, but matter, which has mass, can, correct?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Yes, through interaction with anti-matter it can be destroyed; and the energy the anti- and koinomatter had will then be transferred over to force carriers.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

Does it take energy to create matter?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Yes.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

So does energy equal mass or does mass equal energy?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Mass is a form of energy carried by matter.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

Does all matter have mass?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Originally posted by MF DELPH
Does all matter have mass?

Yes.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

Ok.

So does a particle consist of mass or take on mass? Mass is a requisite of being a particle, correct?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

It takes on mass. Just as it takes on charge, spin, etc.

Mindship Snap out of it.

God particle/Higgs boson 'gives' matter mass.

Actually, *God particle*, imho, was not the best tag (talk about miscontruing), but no doubt it helped sell the book.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

Can you have matter without mass?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Originally posted by Mindship
God particle/Higgs boson 'gives' matter mass.

You're thinking of the Higgs field, not the Higgs boson.

Originally posted by MF DELPH
Can you have matter without mass?

Not according to current definitions.

Matter without rest mass wouldn't have any energy and so it would be impossible to detect or interact with.

Mindship Snap out of it.

Originally posted by Astner
You're thinking of the Higgs field, not the Higgs boson.
Do I get a point for saying 'Higgs'?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

It's technically incorrect because the Higgs boson is an excited state of the Higgs field, while it's the Higgs field that particles—the Higgs mechanic for the vector bosons W and Z and Yukawa couplings for fermions—interact with.

MF DELPH aka Rakim Illa

Ok, so:

-Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
-Mass is a state of energy.
-Matter requires mass.
-Energy is needed to create matter.

Is matter mass?

Astner The Ghost Who Walks

Originally posted by MF DELPH
Ok, so:

-Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
-Mass is a state of energy.
-Matter requires mass.
-Energy is needed to create matter.


Yes.

Originally posted by MF DELPH
Is matter mass?

No.