I would like to share my thoughts about Einstein's equation:
Let me go back in time, at the end of the 17th century, and present
to you different definitions of energy, different opinions of what made up our universe:
- Isaac Newton's views of colliding objects could be summarized with
the following equation: E=mv where the energy of colliding objects
canceled out and vanished only to be replenished by a divine force.
- Gottfried Leibniz's views were different, he suggested no energy was lost in a collision. (kinetic energy is converted into heat and other energy dissipating forces.)He proposed that the equation should actually look like this: E=mv^2.
I believe Einstein's thoughts were somewhat influenced by Leibniz's views, amongst others, when he formulated his famous equation E=mc^2.
Newton's and Leibniz's equations were based on events occuring in a very short lapse of time: a collision. The final velocity was used to solve these problems. This is where I believe we do not get the full picture.
The problem should not be restricted to a collision but over a longer period of time where the velocities involved are the result of accelerations.
In fact all motions in our universe are accelerated ones (negatively or positively). What we see as constant velocities are actually forever minute changes in velocity.These accelerations are done at the expense of energy.
Some accelerations are only noticeable over billions of years as the seemingly constant speed of the Earth's rotation about its axis in 24 hrs.this periodic motion was probably achieved in 23 hrs. a few billion years ago and will probably do so in 25 hrs. in another billion years.
As Newton's and Leibniz's collision example, Einstein's equation E=mc^2 relates to a static universe, a frozen moment in time,the precise moment when matter converts into energy.
How should the equation read for all motions in the universe?
I propose that E=mc^2 to be the maximum limit (excited state)and E=m to be the minimum limit (depleted state).
Velocities vary continuously with time. - Matter tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells matter how to accelerate. (at what rate to lose energy.)
A variable has to be introduced in the equation to produce all the accelerations possible, all the energy states possible:
E=m Lt c^2 where Lt ranges between 1/c^2 to 1
Basically the equation may be written as E=ma where all possible accelerations of 'a' will limit all energy in the universe between E=m and E=mc^2
So then:
- What is energy?
It is the result of depleted (min.) energy and excited (max.) energy state of matter.
- What is matter?
It is the state of energy between the above mentioned limits.
In other words, matter is a form of energy.
- What is Gravity?
It is matter losing energy! It is accelerated matter, it is entropy in the making!
