[MD] Patterns

[Ron Kulp]

Jorge:

I can't answer for SA and Magnus but I could tell you
about my resistance to accept what you said above. 

    Starting with "a rock is a pattern of energy":
>From what could we infer that? From the fact that a
rock 'has energy' ? We may ascribe to a rock energy,
mass and position in space. Does that mean that a rock
is a pattern of mass or of position?

 You go on saying :"Energy in the pattern of atoms.
Repeated in its configurations as molecules". I guess
that you are probably alluding to the fact that most
rocks contain crystals.

Ron: keeping patterns in mind-
From wiki:
[edit] Energy
Energy and matter we have studied from Einstein's hypotheses are analogous: matter can be austerely denoted in terms of energy. Thus, we have only discovered two mechanisms in which energy can be transferred. These are particles and waves. For example, light can be expressed as both particles and waves. This paradox is known as the Duality Paradox. [1].

Particles are discrete, their energy is centralized into what appears to be a finite space, which possesses absolute boundaries and its contents we contemplate to be homogenous i.e. the same at any point within the particle. Particles subsist at a particular location. If they are demonstrated on a 3D graph, they have x, y, and z coordinates. They can never exist in more than one location at once, and to travel to a different place in space, a particle must move to it under the laws of kinematics, acceleration, velocity and so forth. [2]

Interactions between particles have been scrutinized for many centuries, and a few simple laws underpin how particles proceed in collisions and interactions. The most angelic of these are the conservation of energy and momentum which facilitate us to elucidate calculations between particle interactions on scales of magnitude which diverge between planets and quarks[3]. These are the prerequisite basics of Newtonian mechanics, a series of statements and equations in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica originally published in 1687.


[edit] Dividing an atom
The study of electrochemistry led G. Johnstone Stoney to postulate the existence of the electron (denoted e−) in 1874 as a constituent of the atom. It was observed in 1897 by J. J. Thomson. Subsequent speculation about the structure of atoms was severely constrained by the 1907 experiment of Ernest Rutherford which showed that the atom was mostly empty space, and almost all its mass was concentrated into the (relatively) tiny atomic nucleus. The development of the quantum theory led to the understanding of chemistry in terms of the arrangement of electrons in the mostly empty volume of atoms. Protons (p+) were known to be the nucleus of the hydrogen atom. Neutrons (n) were postulated by Rutherford and discovered by James Chadwick in 1932. The word nucleon denotes both the neutron and the proton.

Electrons, which are negatively charged, have a mass of 1/1836 of a hydrogen atom, the remainder of the atom's mass coming from the positively charged proton. The atomic number of an element counts the number of protons. Neutrons are neutral particles with a mass almost equal to that of the proton. Different isotopes of the same nucleus contain the same number of protons but differing numbers of neutrons. The mass number of a nucleus counts the total number of nucleons.

Chemistry concerns itself with the arrangement of electrons in atoms and molecules, and nuclear physics with the arrangement of protons and neutrons in a nucleus. The study of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, their structure and interactions, involves quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (when dealing with processes that change the number of particles). The study of subatomic particles per se is called particle physics. Since many particles need to be created in high energy particle accelerators or cosmic rays, sometimes particle physics is also called high energy physics.