Week 4 Assignments -- Energy Matter & the Four Forces

• E=MCsquared! This equation and what it represents have definitely played a large part in the way I view the world and how I approach understanding this universe and of my interaction with the universe. To know that the speed of light is so fundamental a force that all things we generally understand to have substance/mass are related to it and that they are in actuality just energy in another state. Just as water readily changes into ice or steam. This has helped me to keep perspective in the world by remembering that all things are transient and in a constant state of change. This is true both in the physical world and also in the underlying reality upon which this universe sits. My creativity has been upheld as has my creative spirit to know that the static, unchanging and rigid world that had been taught to me in my youth is not actually so. And that my inner light has a "weird" world in which it may thrive.
• The four forces are really incredible. How they work just so perfectly that the universe works! Whoever the clock maker was on this one really thought it thru before he set the gears in motion! Electromagnetism is known mainly as light or magnetism and those are mostly accepted as being different things though they are the same force...cool! Gravity is cool because this way we can walk to work without flying off to outerspace in a grand flurry of unmitigated movement. Gravity's reach is infinite as is the electromagnetic forces' yet electromagnetism can be cancelled out while gravity will keep on working no matter what. Gravity has infinite reach and always works but is the weakest ( or shall we say the most subtle - which is a very powerful thing too). The strong nuclear force is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000 times stronger than gravity but only has influence on the area of the atomic nucleus and the subatomic particles in there. The weak nuclear force is responsible for radioactive decay and works only on the area in the immediate proximity of the atomic nucleus and has two bascin particles that are big and sluggish...relatively speaking, of course.
• Gravity's function seems to be to keep the accumulations of matter near each other and to keep the universe from spreading itself out too thin too fast. It wouldn't be very fun or interesting if life forms didn't have a chance to develop into higher cognitive levels and quest for the many varying interesting secrets and intrigues the universe has to offer.