Talk:Matter
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"...MATTER AND ENERGY WERE FUNDAMENTALLY SEPARATE TYPES OF MATERIAL." EINSTEIN "SHOWED THAT MASS AND ENERGY WERE INTERCHANGABLE." THERE IS AN IMPLICATION THAT MATTER AND MASS ARE THE SAME. THIS IS CONFUSING AND NEEDS CORRECTING AND EXPLAINING.
This sentence "Matter can more accurately be defined as the energy that has a low vibratory rate, a compressed energy state." is very confusing. Matter is made of protons, neutrons and electrons and these all have very HIGH vibratory rates (Compton frequencies of approx 10^20 to 10^23 Hz). Why does it state "LOW" vibratory rate? It would be more accurate to state that matter is energy travelling at velocity less than c.
This article needs a lot of cleaning up! Dpr 22:12, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I gotta agree with Dpr. "(among which the photon)"... what?
What is Matter
If you take a look ar physics it is all that is studied by physics. But are fotons matter? I'm not sure. Fotons are: massless, (gauge) bosons. Gravitons and gluons are also massless, but gluons are definately matter. The W and Z gauge bosons are massive, are they thus matter?MarSch 14:40, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- it seams that matter fields in QFT are all fermion fields and that the bosonic interaction fields are not matter even though they may have mass. Thus weak vector bosons, which acquire mass through Higgs, would not be considered matter. MarSch 12:23, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
>> Matter, in the sense of content, is also used in contrast to form.
I love this sentence! It is cryptic, yet at the same time, concise and exact. -c neg