I always though of energy as motion – heat is atoms vibrating and moving, sound is a wave of atoms pushing each other in a specific direction, electricity is the movement of electrons, etc. But I’ve heard that e=mc^2 means energy can become matter and matter can be energy. How can motion become physical matter?
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You have a wrong idea of what is matter.
When people usually think of an atom (the smallest bit of matter) they think it’s a very small ball with smaller balls (electrons) gravitating around. This is false, it’s only how we represent them because our brains are used to think with “objects”.
An atom is just a bunch of energy forces interacting together. Forces that pull, forces that push, at different strength and different ranges. It’s hard to understand because it’s not something we can see or experience.
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