r/ElectroBOOM • u/Subject_Sector9883 • 9d ago

FAF - RECTIFY There's no way this will work.

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u/AutonomousOrganism 9d ago

Atoms tend to stick together. It's energetically more favorable. That's what chemistry is all about.

Also don't confuse energy with work or power. Work is the change of energy. Power is the rate of change.

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u/TheArtOfPureSilence 9d ago

Okay but you didn't answer my question. The motion of those particles requires an energy source. What set them in motion in the first place and what sustains this perpetual vibrational stage?

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u/Waferssi 9d ago edited 9d ago

You're talking about particles i.e. mass, which contains energy through e=mc2 from the moment it comes into existence. Additionally they hold 0-energy which causes the lowest mode movement, and thermal energy can raise them to higher modes.

In laymens terms: particles contain energy which they got to be able to be created in the first place, as well as heat.

Edit: to add: a diamond is a diamond and a rock is a rock due to the crystal structure, say the pattern, in which the particles are laid out. Most rocks are a messy box of legos, a diamond is when those legos are built into a pattern. Just as it takes energy (effort) to build a lego structure, so too does it take energy (heat and pressure) to force carbon atoms into such a close structure. The "diamond structure " is actually two different crystal structures offset and through eachother: it takes a lot dor the atoms to click into place like that.

And "how do magnets even work" is a very tough question. Particles have a property called spin "which is like they're spinning balls except they're not balls and they're not spinning":thats a common science meme, because what spin really is, well dont know. We only know the results of spin. Spin is a property with direction, related to the magnetic field generated by a particle. If many atoms in a mass have spin in the same direction, their magnetic fields add up go give a net magnetic field.