(July 17, 2019 at 9:30 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(July 17, 2019 at 10:50 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: Do you agree that all that actually exists is energy ?
Some of that is converted to matter.
Matter is rearranged temporarily, and those temporary rearrangements are what we perceive as existing.
No, energy isn't all that exists. Energy is a property of quantum particles, but so is momentum, spin, position, etc. Furthermore, the energy isn't invariant between different reference frames, while spin, for example, is.
And no, energy isn't converted into matter. All energy is associated with some particle, and all particles have energy. The 'energy' of a particle is the time component of the energy-momentum vector of that particle. Some particles make up what we call 'matter' (which is made from protons, neutrons, and electrons), but there are other particles (like photons) that do not.
(July 17, 2019 at 8:56 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Which observations are those?
More like god was a pixie in the universe farting.
Since energy can be positive and negative, and they can cancel out, does energy actually exist?
Um, yes?
Does a scalar quantity of zero denotes existence?