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Old 01-25-2005, 03:53 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by John Henry
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Hand-waving magniloquence and airy speculation aside, would anybody like to postulate a mechanism by which energy could be capable of understanding?
Sure. It coalesces into matter. Bobs around in a primodrial swamp for a while, clumps together, evolves into life, and a few billion years later you have walking, talking, thinking blob of energy.

Or is that cheating?

We are talking about "pure energy" here right?

I am still in the dark as to what "pure energy" actually is.
I can understand what kinetic energy is. I can understand what heat energy is. And potenial energy, chemical energy, electric energy and all the rest. But I don't know what pure energy is.

E=mc^2 shows us that matter can be anhilated, and when that happens, energy is given off. So when we detonate a nuke, matter dissappears and energy is given off in the form of heat and light (primarily). But no "pure energy".
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