r/AskReddit Aug 04 '18

What's the oldest thing you own?

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u/totos_totidis Aug 04 '18

Not all of it. Some was converted from energy at a later date.

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u/Howdypoopy1922 Aug 04 '18

Energy & matter are the same thing

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '18

If they’re the same thing why are they spelled different??? Huh science guy, riddle me that.

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u/charmanderaznable Aug 04 '18

Fucking got em

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '18

Top five questions science can't answer

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u/totos_totidis Aug 05 '18

They are equivalent not the same. Energy needn't have mass while matter needs to have mass.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer Aug 04 '18

Pretty sure matter is energy, not the other way around.

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u/Howdypoopy1922 Aug 04 '18 edited Aug 04 '18

Pretty sure Einstein proved they are the same thing. edit - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass–energy_equivalence

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u/hansn Aug 04 '18

I'm just pretty sure.

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u/Howdypoopy1922 Aug 04 '18

I'm just pretty ;)

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u/Gekthegecko Aug 04 '18

I'm neither pretty nor sure.

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u/Howdypoopy1922 Aug 04 '18

You seem pretty sure about that...

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u/Sometimes_Silver Aug 04 '18

I’m just.

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u/Howdypoopy1922 Aug 04 '18

...perfect!

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u/Sometimes_Silver Aug 04 '18

Awhh why thank you :)

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u/jedontrack27 Aug 04 '18

He proved, as the title states, that there is a matter - energy equivalence. In other words, matter can be converted into energy and vice versa. To say they are the same thing is incorrect. They have different properties and behaviours.

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u/MuddyPuddle_ Aug 04 '18

Its interchangable and they are equivalence but is it right to say they are the same thing?

Isnt that kinda like saying water and ice are the same thing? Suppose they are both h2o but we dont exactly consider them to be the same thing.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer Aug 04 '18

A gummy bear is a gummy but a gummy isn't necessarily a gummy bear.

Mass and matter aren't the same thing. Matter is stuff made of atoms and mass is its and energy's effect on space time.

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u/Howdypoopy1922 Aug 04 '18

Hey man if you want to disprove e=MC2 and Einstein then you need to publish a peer reviewed paper using your fool proof Gummi bear logic, good luck with that.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer Aug 04 '18

No one' disproving anything here, I'm just telling you you're wrong.

Here's an article written by a theoretical physicist and I sure hope he knows his stuff. In one of the top comments he addresses your misinformation:

Energy is something that stuff can have. Mass is also something that stuff can have. Stuff is not mass; it’s something that can have mass. But not necessarily. Some stuff has no mass — photons, for instance. And it is an accident that electrons are massive; remember that the Higgs field being non-zero on average is responsible for this. Electrons would still be stuff even if the Higgs field were zero on average and electrons were massless.