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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 08:00 AM EDT |
Now you're getting into quantum mechanics, which can be real "fun".
Energy can be in several forms. With light from a LED, electrons are pushed to
a higher shell, but then fall back, releasing a photon in the process. Of
course, there's a bit more to it than that. My understanding is that all energy
eventually reverts to heat. With electrical energy, you have a number of
particles or electrons, which are carried in conductors. Some source of
electrical voltage, such as a battery will cause the electrons to flow in the
conductor. The product of voltage and electrons, measured as current produce
power. Energy is the product of power and time. With nuclear fission, it's the
strong nuclear force that is the source of the energy in nuclear reactions etc.
There's no way all this can be covered here, so I suggest you read some physics
books, including quantum mechanics.
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Authored by: bprice on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 02:39 AM EDT |
Mano Singham, a theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University,
published a simplified explanation just yesterday. It's part 7, currently the
last part, of a series giving the background needed for a good understanding of
fields vs particles:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/04/01/
the-higgs-story-part-7-how-fields-behave/
The entirety of the series is
at http://freeth
oughtblogs.com/singham/category/science/higgs/ --- --Bill. NAL:
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