Matter
...Site updating 06-05-2011 rad...
Matter is any body or particle with some detectible physical form. Matter is now thought to be electro-magnetic. All matter is in motion. All matter in motion has mass... the physical measure of pressure resistance to any change of state (motion). There is thought to be matter that is so small and in a state of so little motion as to be below our limit of singular ability to detect. These undetectable bodies of matter are what I call 'Idle Particles', however they are moving with the Universe, and its motions... but for our Earthly frame of reference they appear as idle, undetectable, and invisible. (In science it has been said there are Virtual Particles. My Idle Particles may be the same thing, but how I think of them is a wider spectrum than how I have interpreted Virtual Particles depicted. (So as not to confuse, I will go with my idle particles.) Bodies in the Frame of Reference of our Earth, that appear to be sitting still or idle, still have mass of motion, that is internal. All the molecules, atoms, and sub atomics particles have some motion; some more, some less. These material matter component are held together to form elements, and compounds. Exactly how, they are held together__ I do not know. All these tiny particles are going hither and thither in continually changing directions. They are expanding and contracting due to heat of light. They are in motion from gravitation. They stay in motion, probably because, like Newton surmised, they have no reason to stop. They are just continually changing states. For lack of a better way to describe them... their tiny motions sort of average out such that they balance, and the whole body appears as a materialistic unity, but with properties such a elastic flexibility. This elastic flexibility is common in all matter, and is a must for the Universe, to have actions and reactions... as it does when matter bodies and particles collide in impact impulse pressure collisions, which are continually happening.
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Matter is a reality of the Universe. For whatever exactly it is... the Universe would not be the same without it!
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At a first level description... Matter is our bodies, our food, our water, our air, and our environment. These things we live with, confront, and interact with constantly all our lives. We recognize this Matter as humans, beasts, and bugs... soup, sandwiches, and cola... mountains, rocks, and rivers... oceans, rain and snow... You know__ things...
High school chemistry taught us about 100 plus specific elements made of atoms. These elements can be grouped together into molecules, what we call compounds... such as the liquid compound water made of two gases, hydrogen and oxygen. I am not sure anyone knows how many combinations of atom compounds can exist... but its a bunch. These elements and compounds, are the afore mentioned things, broken down into more basic forms of matter.
Science keeps prying things apart and has found atoms are made of electrons, protons, and neutrons. The particle chaps are relentless, and keep finding separate sub atomic particles that are enough now to fill a sand box. They theorize the smallest particles are what they call quarks. All these particles seem to have specific attributes.
One thing you should know right up front__ When our everyday matter is rendered asunder... Light is the result! I was using words as annihilated, or destroyed, but I decided this may not be true! Matter when converted to Light does not retain it's obvious nature as a body of what we think as matter, but there is this notion I now have, that Light might be quarks, or yet smaller primordial particles, which are still matter, but in its most fundamental electromagnetic entity... which might be the same as photons of light. (06-05-11, I have read, and do now consider light as matter) Individual Quarks and photons share the commonality that if idle, they are considered mass-less, and idle. Photons and quarks seem to come into being when they are set into motion, (other than just going along with Universal motion in our frame of reference). This means... it appears they get at least some, if not all of their attributes or properties, when they are set into motion. There is the possibility that idle particles are all alike and only get their matter self characteristics when set into major motion... Light photons have directional mass when moving. Quarks probably do the same. Quarks probably could be of a dualistic nature with wave and particle attributes. If an individual quark, in single direction motion, impacted my eye rods and cones, would I be able to know the difference of it from a photon? Could it be that this notion could unify Light, Matter, and maybe explain Space fill... We know there is electromagnetic Light filling our Universal space... What if we are just thinking backwards...and space is not filled with Light, but filled with quarks... which are actually matter in it's fundamental electromagnetic form. This would also seem to go along with matter being created from Space as virtual particles... instead matter is being changed back from mass-less quarks to bodies of matter. It also might explain better what happens to a photon when it impacts matter, and kicks an electron into a higher level of activity. And, the reverse of this action, when light is emitter from matter as photon of heat, for example, it may be radiating a quanta of quarks?!
We theorize and found there are other particles of matter that have no at rest mass, as neutrinos. This is sort of like having no gravitational weight. This makes me wonder if all or some of the other sub atomic particles are accelerated by gravity? In Particles in Nature by John H. Mauldin I was reading about neutrinos and came across these statements... "The neutrino has no charge, and negligible mass... It must be moving near light speed... The neutrino can pass easily through the Earth or Sun, so that nearly all neutrinos produced during fusion in stars, depart, carrying* away substantial unseen energy*. The neutrino also seems to have negligible magnetic moment. ...With no charge it does not interact electromagnetically, but it is attracted* by gravity as all particles are. It was found not to be affected by the nuclear force." Well I guess, first and foremost I do not like the wording "it is attracted by", that being said... it is quite interesting, if true, that all particles are affected by gravitation. I am not sure how it is known, that all particles are affected by gravitation. I consider photons of light being affected by Space, not gravitation per se. Quarks are theorized to be the smallest building blocks of matter... or so goes science theory, probably since they are too small to be detected. I guess other particles as a stream, or ray; may curve toward Earth in a particle accelerator, and can be detected, and calculated giving rise to the assumption they are particles interacting with gravitation. Assuming all particles have gravitational interaction... First, this could mean that each and all particles have a common attribute that is also common with atom particles, which is also common with elemental and compound molecule chunks, which is common to rocks, planets, stars and etc...? Or; a second alternative is: there is some universal common attribute or thing that interacts commonly and mutually on all matter instead; whatever it is...? Ah, there may be a third scenario which I have I put in the page on Space, coming up soon. It seems to me that gravitation may be an interaction with particles, in some, or all of their motions, rather than being a specific entity. Idle quarks without mass, or without any motion are probably not affected by gravitation, and may themselves in this condition be, part of the gravitational affect, of Space acting on bodies that do have motion... i.e. mass. (*Please note the above items I have identified with asterisks__ how easy it is for science to throw the assumption words of energy, attraction, and carrying away unseen energy... Ah Come On!? Phooey I say!) I wonder how heavy the energy was they would have to carry? Maybe Superman could see energy?
I recently read about matter being... "anything that kicks back if kicked." This sort of goes along with Dr. Samuel Johnson kicking a heavy stone, and exclaiming "I refute it thus!" in reference to George Berkeley's philosophy that reality is only as a person perceives it. More formally a kick is just impulse pressure brought to bear in a short duration. The light mentioned above, kicked the electron, and I assume the electron kicked back, (reflected) the light back somewhere? Where I am going with this, is__ I like the idea that matter may be explained as any entity with at rest mass reacting with pressure. (At rest mass, and if an electron has it__ is why I was wondering above, about an electron and gravitation...?) Anyway for now... I define Matter as...
§Matter: Any Universal entity form, that reacts with reverse pressure, (inertia) to any pressure brought to bear upon said entity.
(01-07-2011) I changed my definition of matter just above. I am now convinced that all inertia measurement is directional mass, even what has been thought to be at rest mass. Actually mass measurement is of the inertia, or resistance to change of state matter. I am adding revisions to the page of Mass in the Fantasy Section II, for further explanation. rad
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I am not sure if this is ironic or what... But, I have started my reality physics section first, for my writings herein, with the topic entitled Matter; high upon a level of importance as a reality, whereas I classified Mass as a fantasy. I find it strange that Matter seems ignored by science. It would seem that some people think Matter is unimportant, and doesn't matter...? Note the list of books below, (which are made of matter)__ but__, have no definitions of matter...!?
A Concise Dictionary of Physics; Physics for Poets; Fundamentals of Physical Science; Fundamentals of Physics Extended; In Search of Schrodinger's Cat; Particles In Nature; Physics for The Inquiring Mind; Physical Science; Principles of College Physics; Relativity The Special and the General Theory; A Survey of Physics; and The Edges of Science__ are just some of my books that don't define matter, and hardly mention it except en passant. These books seem to jump quickly to mass, elements, atoms, and etc...? Hum...?
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Page Relevant Quotes
"Matter is any physical entity which possesses mass." Encyclopedia Dictionary of Electronics, & Nuclear Engineering. (Personally I think this definition is incorrect... mass is not possessed... it is a measure. rad)
Until 1932, there was no experimental evidence that the rest energy of a particle could ever change, but since the discovery of the positron in 1932 the process of the 'annihilation' of material particles (electrons and positrons) with the complete conversion of their rest energy into energy of light quanta has become familiar, as the inverse process, that of the materialization of the energy of light quanta as the rest energy of electrons and positrons. (I obviously have a problem with the usage of the word energy, but this sort of tells the story... If quarks radiated outward in single directions individually were Light with directional mass... but when they are all bunched together in a body they become matter; still retaining directional mass for each individual quark.... but, there are jillions of them together going all different directions it would give them an mean overall attribute of an 'at rest' mass... RAD) Principles of College Physics; Shortley and Williams
"There is no sharp discontinuity between the quantum world and the world of large-scale objects. The quantum world and the laws that govern it are universal but, as we move from electrons and atoms to baseballs and automobiles, the fact of quantization becomes less noticeable and finally totally undetectable. The "graininess" effectively disappears, and the laws of classical physics that govern the motions of large objects emerge as special limiting forms of the more general laws of quantum physics." Fundamentals of Physics Extended, by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, & Jearl Walker
"The Electron is simple but perplexingly so. It appears to be infinitesimal in size, that is, it has no size and no structure.
It is a member of other point-like particles called leptons; there are six basic types, each with an antiparticle version." Fundamentals of Physics Extended, by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, & Jearl Walker
""As a young man, Berkeley theorized that individuals cannot know if an object is; they can only know if an object is "perceived" by a mind. He stated that individuals cannot think or talk about an objects being, but rather think and talk about an object's "being perceived" by someone. That is, individuals cannot know any "real" object or matter "behind" the object as they perceive it, which "causes" their perceptions. He thus concluded that all that individuals know about an object is their perception of it."" From writings about George Berkeley... @ Wikipedia... internet.
