Entropy
Whether the energy is considered to be kinetic energy, potential energy, electrical energy, heat energy, light energy or chemical energy, they all impel other atoms to change their velocity. As each event takes place, greater overall movement is observed. Waves of motion propagate away from the interaction.
Connect a battery to a pair of rods that are immersed in water. Hydrogen and oxygen will be produced. Burn that hydrogen and use the heat to boil some water. Using the steam, you can get a turbine to turn and thereby generate electricity. That electricity can charge the battery. All good except that there are losses along the way. Only a fraction of the energy is returned to the battery no matter how clever the engineering is. One aspect of loss, unrecoverable energy, relates to entropy.
One way or another we witness a shift from a null state, no true atom inter-action, to widespread interaction, back to the null state. Whether on a local scale or universal scale, true atoms entangle and structures form. Some structures remain in place but many are shattered. We see atoms do this powering our planet. Nuclear fusion in the sun radiates heat and light towards our planet causing photosynthesis in plants that enable prosperity. At some point all the potential fusion dries up. The process by which true atoms return to their null state is the most intriguing.
Consider a photon at what you regard as the edge of the universe, departing into the darkness. The further it voyages, the less relevance it has to that which it has left behind. True atoms are defined not by themselves but by the inter-action with other true atoms. It will maintain the link to other true atoms for a period before dissipating by virtue of excess relative distance.
Returning to the thought of every true atom being gravitationally linked to one another. The forces blend into a gap free field. This plays a part in preventing further true atoms from entering the equation.
So cold the night. Fusion upon fusion with fission too. As the fusion builds too great a basic element, the will to divide into smaller chunks becomes evident. Elements have a size limitation. Stability is not found in top heavy structures.
Light is a small packet of true atoms. Light consists of true atoms on the move. Light will make other true atoms change velocity or vibrate faster during a collision. Given that light consists of true atoms it will have the properties of mass. You can therefore shine a light on something to make it move faster, or slower, or change direction. True atoms, bond and bind, loosely or strongly according to whether the structure is prone to assembling or shape shifting. The structure that the light collides with determines what happens next. The light may be absorbed – true atoms embed into the structure. The light may have its resonance frequency shifted or be reflected – a velocity change.
When true atoms fuse, they vibrate intensely often causing rapid changes in position. True atoms resist getting too close. However, once sufficiently into the fusion zone, fuse they do. The fusion zone is set by a standard relative distance from the point of greatest action. Given that this zone is as close to zero as we can imagine, the probability of two true atoms fusing is very low. The chance of a fusion increases significantly the more the true atoms are vibrating. In simple terms, heat helps. Heat being lots of vibration and relative high velocity. The fusion of true atoms leads to a massive increase in the velocity of the pair. That increase in velocity exacerbates any collision the pair make with true atoms in the way of its new path.
Two true atoms make a pair, three triangular, four a cross and so on. Thirteen is one of many special entities as that completes a shell around the central true atom. A fusion is not necessarily exothermic in nature at all number points. In some cases, it can be endothermic in nature. An addition that results in a completion of a shell leads to a different reaction to additions that result in incomplete structures. Splitting a twenty-six true atom structure into two thirteen true atom structures for example would be quite a different affair than spitting a twenty-five true atom structure.
In front of you lies a balloon. As the day wears on, the temperature rises, and the balloon expands. The observable universe may appear to be expanding too, not because of any change in overall temperature, but because things seem to be shifting further apart. The balloon started life as a blob of rubber. We could take a wild guess that the universe started off from a tiny blob too. We can come up with many dreadful theories like this. We can comingle some mathematics, run some equations to devise a compelling proof. If we stumble upon some issues, we can add some more conjectures and re-run the sums. The notion that the universe underwent an instantaneous expansion is quite a wild thought. Fashionable ideas are replaced soon enough.
Waves of derivation ripple through randomly bringing some true atoms out of the zero state into action. True atoms emerge with varying degrees of success. Some fail from being over ‘energised’, some insufficiently - not enough to attain an enduring interactive responsive presence. A percentage are set just so, not too high on that mountain and not too far over the top. Then the process of uniting and building structures begins. From there we know the rest, we can see stars being born and stars transforming making wonders never cease. One such wonder is the gun trigger mechanism in elements that spit out alpha, beta or gamma. That trigger is quite ornate. Clusters of true atoms, often from relatively far away, need hit it most accurately to trip the trigger.
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