Appreciate Inorganic Matter

While organic matter as derived from or found in life is the main focus of operative processes of life on earth or elsewhere, do not forget that all of life's organic compounds (like hydrocarbons) are comprised of elements](elements which are not organic). Non-organic matter like elements possess truly mysterious properties that we may examine and are still seeking to harness -- and not just the radioactive or atomic elements and compounds either.

The value of inorganic matter (ie: matter not derived from life) is also much more than the metals like silver, platinum, calcium, sodium, or gold and in gem stones for jewels, but also in the original innovation called life and necessary for maintenance of life itself. Appreciate that the inorganic matter had to be the raw material of life... to form the organic according to a magnificent computer program called chromosomes and genes. The raw ingredients of life are all from the non-organic matter (like original sterile earth) and water-- before products and by products of organisms were added to the mix!

Steps

  1. If you are new to physics (in reality, everyone is--as physics is constantly opening new frontiers), then read relevant simplified articles and texts, gradually increasing the complexity of your studies.
  2. Once you begin to understand the properties of different atomic and subatomic particles (calling them "particles" here), then marvel at the differing charges, forms of energy, actions and orbits occurring in tiny spaces.
  3. Learn how Hunt for Rocks are not really still, but, unnoticed to the naked eye or to an ordinary microscope, they are made up of atoms with electrons orbiting nuclei that are in motion and vibrate imperceptibly on a subatomic level. Though unharnessed, the energy contained in a small pebble is--despite our thinking of it as inert--virtually limitless as it is composed of a tremendous number of atoms composed of a multiplicity of electrons and protons, neutrons, etc.
  4. Learn how at absolute zero temperature that all atoms virtually freeze and do stop all transference of energy at 0 Kelvin = 0° R (Rankine scale--thermodynamic temperature scale) = −273.15° Celsius (centigrade) scale = −459.67° Fahrenheit. Also atomic motion will eventually be disrupted if and when the universe expands until it disperses or conversely collapses back to the compacted form as before the "big bang." Otherwise, the atom might seem almost like a virtual perpetual motion machine: like an intricate device, moving to complicated rhythms remaining virtually unchanged (according to current measurements) for eons. This stability is illustrated by atomic clocks which are accurate to a tolerance of one second every 1.7 million years.
  5. Learn what many physicists believe about the appearance of particles such that sometimes one particle seems to be in two places at one time or transport.
  6. Learn that objects and particles either repel or attract each other, with the latter being far more noticeable because the easily noted kind of attraction is called gravity, and one can experience gravity by dropping or throwing something or by oneself falling to the floor or ground on a planet or large moon. In space, however, gravity is very weak or not measurable depending on how far one is from a large gravitational body. Realize that the force of gravity is also what causes objects to have measurable weight.

    ~ Another well known example of a kind of repelling force is caused by polarity of the atoms in certain matter that can form magnets (thus having what are called North and South poles as the earth does) such that two or more magnets in an orientation of the poles either (N,N) or (S,S) will repel and (N,S) or (S,N) will attract.

    ~ Another example of repelling involves electrical charges being the same like (+,+) or (-,-) so then there is a repelling force, and conversely if the charges differ (+,-) or (-,+) there is an attraction. This can be illustrated with static electrical charges in a vacuum; such that the charges are stored in evacuated Bell jar type of devices and a static charge introduced to metal foil(s) to show attraction and repulsion by observing the flexing of the foil which is suspended in the jar by a stiff wire rod. One foil my be grounded to earth to represent the opposite charge.

    ~ A very fundamental attraction is between the electrons in orbit and protons in the nucleus which keeps the electrons attracted to the nucleus of the atom.

    ~ Direct current (DC) electrical circuits (steady electron flow) is itself caused by attractive forces of the opposite polarity: negative and positive electrical charges as the electrons return to the source typically battery or generator.

    ~ On the other hand, alternating current (AC) is a more complicated flow to understand as it is forced through a circuit by the power flowing behind as if it were pumped from the generating source (toward earth/ground) as the electrons do a jig back and forth usually at 50 or 60mhz, cycles per second incurring less resistance and thus enables sending of very high AC voltages much farther than DC could ever do.
  7. Learn that most physicists believe all matter was once held in a small object that some think was the size of a grapefruit or smaller with a gravitational force that was mind-boggling. Its explosion called (The Big Bang) Theory is said to have happened about 10 to 20 billion years ago (American numeration system). It is said that radiation that it generated can still be detected with special equipment, and that the universe is still seen to be rapidly expanding as it has been for the ages since The Big Bang.
  8. Learn that in physics, "conservation of matter" means that matter is never destroyed but changes forms as when a fuel is burned (rapid oxidation) but is not destroyed but is consumed by actually changing form to oxidized ash residue, oxidized gases--for example: carbon dioxide CO2and carbon monoxide CO--plus water vapor which disperse in the air (though many physicists believe that eventually all forces could decay and cease working billions of years from now). For example, if organic matter "decayed", its components (carbon, etc.) could possibly completely disperse into an unseen dust of disjoint particles.
  9. Try to imagine that the universe "instead of completely dispersing" may stop expanding and begin shrinking as it returns to the center of the universe--back to that original compacted form to explode again--as it is apparently a huge cycle which may take trillions of years to repeat.
  10. Learn how you consist of ancient particles present before the Big Bang. Since they were packed so tightly, particles that are now in your every fiber have interacted with particles that make up the rest of the entire universe from that common compacted source of all energy, forces and matter.
  11. Learn about your body replacing nearly all of its flesh about every seven years; such that the repair system is now using particles from outer-space to rebuild itself as every inorganic substance came from that original source, and so obviously our system is replacing our parts with ancient outer space matter found on earth and additionally some more particles reach the earth every second of the day.
  12. Learn how the Milky Way and you are as related as plant cuttings are to the host plant. The constituent elements and compounds of the moon differ from us "only" in that our genetic system creates highly organized flesh out of particles of inorganic matter of many kinds taken from our food and recycled from the body itself as we grow and as we age.

Tips

  • Don't be frustrated if you are not able to understand certain concepts of physics, even the best scientists have trouble picturing some of these things which have never been seen and our current knowledge on the topic is still very limited by what we can not see except by how these particles affects other particles and so must be there though they are not directly detectable at this time.
  • You don't need to have your ashes shot into space as they are expected by many physicists to end up there eventually in the process of the next big bang.
  • Form your own opinion as to whether each individual quark, atom, nuclei or photon spontaneously generated or was created.

Warnings

  • You may know too much about physics when someone says "as worthless -- or as cheap as dirt" and you feel personally offended.

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