Victor Elias Espinoza Guedez - 21 November 2011 03:11 PM
We know that matter is made of colors, day or night, or you are blind.
Perhaps you are confused about the difference in how the average person defines color and how a quantum physicist defines it? It’s not related at all; the quantum physicists simply chose the term at random because there’s nothing in the English language that IS close.
Victor
*** The light color on cooling becomes mass ***
Still trying to make sense out all this.
Is it possible that Victor is talking about “heat”? A blue star is very hot and relatively less massive by volume than a red star of the same size which cooler and relatively more massive per volume?
But then what about the actual matter from which the star is composed? Are there blue and red stars composed of different matter, i.e. a solid (liquid) blue star and a red gaseous star? When stars of the same size but of different matter are cooled to the same temperature (color), will they have the same mass?
^ Feynman, Richard (1985). QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton University Press. p. 136. ISBN 0-691-08388-6. “The idiot physicists, unable to come up with any wonderful Greek words anymore, call this type of polarization by the unfortunate name of ‘color,’ which has nothing to do with color in the normal sense.”
^ Feynman, Richard (1985). QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton University Press. p. 136. ISBN 0-691-08388-6. “The idiot physicists, unable to come up with any wonderful Greek words anymore, call this type of polarization by the unfortunate name of ‘color,’ which has nothing to do with color in the normal sense.”
Does Feynman expect physicists to become linguists also?..That’s just too much to ask and is why they hire actors to present the tv shows on the Universe and Physics
Even Einstein spoke of ‘spooky action at a distance’ before they came up with ‘entanglement’...
It is true that each element has a distinct color signature when heated in a flame, but that is a consequence of its atomic composition, not the other way around.
Does Feynman expect physicists to become linguists also?..That’s just too much to ask and is why they hire actors to present the tv shows on the Universe and Physics
Even Einstein spoke of ‘spooky action at a distance’ before they came up with ‘entanglement’...
Well they can try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark :
“Their model involved three flavors of quarks—up, down, and strange— . . . “
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“For some time, Gell-Mann was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word quark in James Joyce’s book Finnegans Wake:
Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he has not got much of a bark
And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark.
There you have it. Matter is made up from “flavors”. The “strange flavor” is my favorite. It’s like a box of chocklats, never now what’s on the inside ..........