Mass
Mass resists change in velocity. Mass resists being accelerated or decelerated. Mass objects to having its course altered. Mass is also attracted to other masses in the weak form, gravity. True atoms take on the behaviour of mass without needing any physical material to make them inter-active. If the point of greatest action within a true atom is static relative to other true atoms it tries to remain so, static. If it is moving relative to other true atoms, the point of greatest action within a true atom likes to remain on the same relative trajectory. True atoms resist changes in velocity.
The more mass an object has, the more force required to accelerate it. More mass, more effort needed to speed it up, slow it down or redirect it. A solid iron ball is harder to throw than one made the same size but made of paper. The iron ball has more mass than the paper one. The iron ball would resist being thrown far more than the paper one even in the vacuum of space. If you heat up an iron ball, it will expand. The volume increases, the density decreases but the mass stays the same. It will not become easier to move, throw, nor stop, if it is hurtling towards you.
True atoms interact with each other with less intensity the further apart they are. They have a spherical zone of inter-action. However, they are not to be thought of as tiny spheres. Nor infinitesimally small point objects, but points of greatest inter-action. Imagine sweeping a metal detector back and forth across the ground and isolating a point where the detector emits the loudest sound. There is a point where the true atom’s effect is greatest. They are not strings. They are not balls. They are not sheets. They are emptiness with a severe inclination to resist other true atoms getting too close. If that resistance is overcome, they will unite and, in the process, cause a significant disturbance. That disturbance will radiate outwards affecting other true atoms in range.
The universe is no centralized simulation, for each atom is acting in a unique spot. We are not holographic mirages - despite being formed of nothing more than ethereal substance free true atoms. Holograms have very minimal mass effect. True atoms are more akin to information than what we feel is physical matter. It can be a help and a hinderance to use the word information in the context of true atoms. It helps in that many forms of information such as encoded waves, pictorial displays etc have no underlying substance. However, it hinders when we think of information as being benign, non-responsive, inactive, created, interpreted, transitory. There is no information as such contained in a pencil. But use that pencil to write something and you have created information.
The blank canvas, namely an empty void, the universe, a vacuum, null, nothing interacting state of emptiness can have interacting true atoms springing into life. From nothing come items with no solidity, made from nothing, that commence interactions between each other. True atoms emulate solidity, mass and forcefulness. They do so in their unique spot. True atoms do not represent information. They are a single piece of data that place a position shifting force on all the others. The universe is nothing bar true atoms moving. From explosions, fire, chemistry, bonding, building, it is all true atoms moving, nothing more. High velocities are what we commonly equate as temperature. Fast is hot. Slow is cold.
Hot transfers to cold always. Heat is faster moving atoms. A cold object contains atoms vibrating/moving at a lower average relative rate to a warmer object. When a set of cold atoms mingle with warmer ones, the average heat of the formerly cold atoms rises whilst the average heat of the hotter ones falls. Each collision will shift the relative speed of all the atoms towards an equilibrium. Individual warmer atoms may heat up, move faster, after a collision with a slower moving atom. However, there will be more atoms slowing down than speeding up. The angle at which a collision takes place dictates whether the faster object is impeded or accelerated by slower moving objects. The ratio of impediment versus acceleration substantially favours impediment. A colder slower moving atom will never catch a faster one when travelling in the same direction. The frontal collisions that occur when atoms are on the same line of travel is enough to favour overall heat loss of the warmer atoms.
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