Originally Posted By: Bill

Similarly, we might say: energy is a feature of matter, and have no problem with the units of energy. Does this make a difference?


But energy is not a "feature" of matter at all?

Kinetic energy is a feature of movement, And potentential energy is a feature of distortion of spacetime (or if you don't like GR its a feature of gravitational seperation)

Photons of light are not matter and they most definitely have energy for example.

So by trying to make energy a "feature" you are indeed making a random quality and your original statement was perfectly correct and I did not misunderstand or misinterpret it .... my answer was correct.

if you want to make something a "feature" of matter first show me an observation that shows it to be so other than that it is indeed a randomly chosen quality because we certainly haven't needed it in an science so far.

Last edited by Orac; 11/30/11 01:15 AM.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.