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• ...that your watch would run slower when orbiting a black hole than it would on Earth?
• ...that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air.
• ...that nuclear fusion reactions are probably occurring at or above the sun's photosphere; it is a process called solar surface fusion.
Artist's depiction of the WMAP satellite measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation to help scientists understand the Big Bang
• ...that neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful (5 mL) would have ten times the mass of all human world population?
• ...that every year, the Moon moves 3.82 cm away from Earth?
• ...that Neptune was discovered by its gravitational pull on Uranus?
• ...that the impact of a raindrop would be fatal if not for the property of fluid flow known as terminal velocity?
• ...that a moonbow, or night-time rainbow, can be seen on strongly-moonlit nights?

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The synopsis below is an open dialog regarding the defination energy
Merriam-Webster's Full Definition of ENERGY

1 a : dynamic quality <narrative energy>

 b :  the capacity of acting or being active <intellectual energy>
c :  a usually positive spiritual force <the energy flowing through all people>


2: vigorous exertion of power : effort <investing time and energy> 3: a fundamental entity of nature that is transferred between parts of a system in the production of physical change within the system and usually regarded as the capacity for doing work 4: usable power (as heat or electricity); also : the resources for producing such power

A Proposed New Definition of Energy
• A field of existence having finite boundaries, that are infinitely variable and exhibiting infinitely variable topology. The field occupies no more than 2 dimensions of space and has a constant entropic condition.
Properties
• An energy field will exhibit polar properties due to its motion in space/time. Those properties are positive on the surface that is exposed to the direction of motion and negative on the surface that is opposite the direction of motion. These fields appear to exist always at right angles to the direction of propagation.
• Entropic condition is caused by interactions between different energy fields and between energy fields and matter. These interactions are caused by the polar relationships of energy fields. Since all fields are constantly in motion, one will always exhibit the characteristic of repelling any other field that is directionally opposed to it.
• Energy fields are always in motion relative to our perception of the universe, or we may be in motion relative to energy fields.
• The topology of an energy field may have an almost infinite variety of configurations. A visual example would be to consider an impossibly thin sheet of plastic wrap. It has elastic properties and may be shaped in a variety of ways, but it only has two surfaces and a finite boundary.
• The behavior of all energy fields is that of a somewhat elastic surface that has infinite properties of flexibility.
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Energy, Gravity, and Matter Interrelations

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Two physicists in the US have been frothing with excitement at having created a new mathematical model to describe the complex evolution of foamy bubbles – something that has proved fiendishly difficult to model thanks to the hugely varying length and timescales involved. The researchers separated the various processes that determine the evolution of foam according to the different length and timescales at which they occur, and have created a model for bulk foam dynamics. The duo also developed a set of equations, which the researchers used to create a movie that simulates how light would reflect off a small foam sample as its bubbles rearrange. The image below consists of snapshots from the movie – the researchers picked a "beach scene" as a backdrop so that they could visualize how well their model replicates what would be seen in real life.
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