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My guess is it has something to do with matter being quantized and having only specific values, otherwise I don't really understand what your saying. Could you be more specific? At what temperature does this happen? What circumstances? You saying when hydrogen/calcium is heated up? Your saying when hydrogen/calcium absorbs other light? If you heat up hydrogen to different temperatures, it will emit different spectrum of light. However, because matter and energy are quantized, hydrogen will only absorb energy which allow the electrons to move up exact intervals of levels, as in exactly to the next energy level or exactly to the 3rd energy level, so my guess is hydrogen wouldn't emit a specific frequency because it can't absorb the right frequency for an electron to jump down to a lower energy from the specific higher one required to make the photon and emit it. Although, from my point of view, hydrogen should be able to emit the lowest possible frequency of light seeing as how it has only 1 valence electron which can havethe valence electron in the lowest possible energy state, the ground state.

But then the electrons still cease to exist, as in matter disappears form reality and only energy is left, somehow. I see how mass mathematically is conserved, I just don't see how matter isn't ceasing to exist if electrons can't break down into smaller particles and they suddenly disappear, or at the very least, that they transform into energy.

You heat a substance up to 4000 degrees F and it emits visible light in the blue end of the spectrum. You heat a substance up to 100 degrees F and it emits infrared light which isn't visible to us. An electron and anti-electron collide and supposedly the matter of each cease to exist while two gamma rays result.

It means there's no longer matter in the coordinates that there are now photons, so where'd the matter go? Because I thought it couldn't be destroyed or be made into nothing/not matter. I tried asking you about this an another topic, and you said energy "doesn't" get transformed into matter or vice versa, and someone else or you said only the position change, so under that I would see how electrons contained energy within them then released it, but then there did the matter holding that energy go? Did it break down into simpler undetectable particles? It appears as though matter is disappearing and energy is reappearing in its place. Also, why would matter only convert into electro-magnetic waves? Why not gravitational waves or strong force waves or etc?

It means there's no longer matter in the coordinates that there are now photons, so where'd the matter go? Because I thought it couldn't be destroyed or be made into nothing/not matter. I tried asking you about this an another topic, and you said energy "doesn't" get converted into matter, and someone else or you said only the position change, so under that I would see how electrons contained energy within them then released it, but then there did the matter holding that energy go? Did it break down into simpler undetectable particles? "

Generally higher energy reactions mean higher energy results. If a material gets really hot from kinetic energy, then it can emit high frequency photons. It has to do with how the electrons in nuclei jump between orbitals, and there's also matter which convert into EM energy when particles decay or annihilate each other, in which case a lot of energy is stored and released in those systems.

I'm not saying cooling reactors would stop the decay, but could you cool them down with liquid nitrogen and super-cool them by removing the medium that carries the heat? I don't know if you can actually really cool a nucleus reactor because the nuclei of atoms breaking down are constantly causing fission reactions which then release energy.

You say I have taken away 1/3 of the apples, but does anything in the universe actually account for that? The only thing thats happening is the distance between some particular atoms has suddenly increased, and thats it, we just happen to label it as "1/3" to recognize it as a distinct pattern, even if nothing else really cares.

Oh ok, well I know water is polarized and has ends with specific charges, and from what it seems like based on what I can gather, the concentration of microwaves makes the molecules of water literally vibrate and spin, but since the microwaves are sort of random, this happens in different areas in different amounts and causes the actual electromagnetic force fields generated by the polarized ends to fluctuate strength, and based on the surrounding water molecules, the molecules will vibrate faster and cause heat as a result of this. It seems a lot like just sending waves through a box, but I'm not quite sure if the single wave of a microwave is suppose to be so de-localized that it actually hits multiple water molecules throughout the entire microwave. Although I think a simpler way to explain this could just be that the water molecules re-emit photons, just more localized.

If a gene survives, then there's a chance that that gene will have a mutation, then if that mutation survives, then it can mutate, and so on. This is why its gradual. This could easily happen with alien life forms since some things would be better for surviving a particular environment they are in than other things.

If a gene survives, then there's a chance that that gene will have a mutation, then if that mutation survives, then it can mutate, and so on. This is why its gradual. This could easily happen with alien life forms since some things would be better for surviving a particular environment they are in than other things.

Why does there' have to be infinite decimals? Does cutting something into thirds or 5ths or 7ths not actually exist in nature? There is nothing that is actually exactly 1 third of something else, but it seems like making halves or 4ths is pretty easy in the universe.

If electrons already do harmlessly pass through the nucleus, then what exactly does it take to get them to collide? A particle collider? Why does that make a different?

Well he transfers kinetic energy to the helium and it moves, but if the atoms go to a higher energy state, wouldn't it not continue to be a super fluid?

OK, so the atoms are all i their lowest possible state and they're all huddled together, so if I shine gamma-rays on liquid helium, what happens? Wave functions can overlap, so why wouldn't the atoms go to a higher energy state?

But then that means matter is no longer matter, and energy is created, which I thought was impossible.

Doesn't that tutorial explain what microwaves do? I mean I assume you already know what heating on a stove top does.

I don't think scientists have done this, but they have made compounds with xenon with fluorine and even made xenic acid. Just google "xenon difluoride". I guess if you somehow stripped away the electrons from xenon then introduced it to normal xenon, it would be very electronegative (or wanted to take electrons) and would bond with xenon, but why would you even want diatonic xenon anyway? I mean its the heaviest noble gas without being radioactive, would you want to use it for energy? Maybe if you could somehow make xenon into a plasma and then somehow "push" all the electrons away, you'd be left with just nuclei, and that might form diatonic bonds, but diatonic noble gases isn't really something that occurs even in sci-fi. I suppose though that its possible and I just never heard of it. That plasma thing is actually a long stretch, all I really know is we haven't created diatonic xenon or diatonic any noble gas.

Because the fabric of space-time is not proven to exist. Scientists have not found a medium for light and gravity and other forces, so until then, a lot of Einstein's theories are purely mathematical descriptions, as in they only describe how the math works. Gravity get stronger by the square of the distance (inverse of gravitational strength at distance?) as you get closer to a mass emanating gravity, so it would only make complete sense that in a 2D plane it would 3D bend by an ever increasing amount as you got closer to the source.

I guess its unanswerable, and not even the great Swan can answer it. Not even Stephen Hawking could answer it I bet.

Well I had assumed they let it cool down because I thought it would have been too obvious that highly heated water kills them. That's fine. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/microwaves/water_rotates2.html

Because the electron returns to a lower energy state, thus releasing a particle of light. There's also the possibility that a radar releases multiple frequencies of light, and water isn't a black body, so it won't absorb all of them.

Oh, no, water absorbs microwaves, it causes water molecules to spin in a literal classical manner effecting how the molecules act in terms of polarity and causes water to heat in random places resulting in uneven distributions of heat. But I'm asking, what else does it due that supposedly kills plants and changes its structure as ice? So swan, could that be a lingering effect? The water molecules are still spinning due to some type of inertia on a molecular level?

But any effect that could linger? Like maybe its polarity changing or something like that? Well the result of the experiment is the ice crystals, so thats fine. The conclusion however, is that the microwaves are responsible for that since they had non-microwaved water crystals and they had normal crystals. Maybe the effects to completely diminish need the entire system to form an equilibrium or something like that. It's really the only explanation for why microwaved water appears to kill plants. http://www.execonn.com/sf/ Oh so quantum mechanics gets to have any possibility it wants but classical mechanics can only be specific things? Thats discrimination and I really don't appreciate that.

Well only a few physical properties, nothing drastic, but it seems to cause plants to die for some reason. There's also people who have done experiments where all they do is change the spin of atoms and all of a sudden those molecules are highly poisonous, so I mean, it might be something subtle like that. No your in classical physics, where you can assume anything is possible.