Topic: “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to - page 2. (Read 7810 times)
August 05, 2012, 11:14:17 PM
The energy is stored in the form of (relatively) unstable chemical bonds (ie chemical potential energy). When these bonds spontaneously break the energy will be released as heat. When bacteria or some animal consume the tissue there are enzymes designed to speeds up the rate at which these bonds break and harness the energy of breaking one bond to form different ones useful to the consumer. Another option to get some useful work out of a carcass is stimulating nerves causing movement of arms and legs. However, without constant influx of oxygen and food you will soon run out of ATP so this is much less efficient than just eating the carcass and letting your enzymes do their thing.
August 05, 2012, 11:03:36 PM
trolls.. always confusing power with energy.
August 05, 2012, 10:54:24 PM
If there were a way to convert the mass of a human into energy, the word "suicide bomber" would get a whole new meaning. It would be on the order of all nuclear bomb tests in history combined.
We are all nuclear bombs?You can compress a human into a diamond given enough pressure since we are simply carbon based lifeforms.
Dont know how many carats you would end up with per human
August 05, 2012, 10:50:43 PM
If there were a way to convert the mass of a human into energy, the word "suicide bomber" would get a whole new meaning. It would be on the order of all nuclear bomb tests in history combined.
We are all nuclear bombs? August 05, 2012, 10:31:57 PM
Yes id imagine that the molecules in your body would be inable to continue their normal process and the vibrational patterns would dissipate and your body would then break up(and dissolve) into the universe
Xenland you know I love you like a brother, but "vibrational patterns?" WTF?
Has anyone mentioned "entropy" yet?
I guess i went too quantum for you... Okay so basically when bacteria/organisms in your body can't get energy the molecules that make up the bacteria/oragnisms in your body them selves don't exchange energy and thus the vibrational patterns(energy exchange) to sustain creatures assistance will dissipate into the ground/air instead of pumping blood blood or filtering food or liquids.
August 05, 2012, 10:16:41 PM
Heat Death. Heat Death everywhere...
August 05, 2012, 10:02:35 PM
Yes id imagine that the molecules in your body would be inable to continue their normal process and the vibrational patterns would dissipate and your body would then break up(and dissolve) into the universe
Xenland you know I love you like a brother, but "vibrational patterns?" WTF?
Has anyone mentioned "entropy" yet?
August 05, 2012, 09:44:49 PM
I think the misconception here is how W is being used to measure energy. The unit of energy is the joule, not the watt (that is the unit of power). Power is energy over time, or more specifically represents the conversion of energy from one form to another over time. When the power shuts down, this conversion ceases.
I hope this is an adequate scientific answer, albeit simplified greatly.
I hope this is an adequate scientific answer, albeit simplified greatly.
August 05, 2012, 09:40:23 PM
Yes id imagine that the molecules in your body would be inable to continue their normal process and the vibrational patterns would dissipate and your body would then break up(and dissolve) into the universe
August 05, 2012, 06:57:08 PM
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
Thanks mufasa
August 05, 2012, 06:53:31 PM
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
Thanks mufasa
August 05, 2012, 03:49:44 PM
~Einstein
A human body is about equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb in terms of the heat it produces. So what happens to all this energy when you die if you cant destroy it ?
A human body is about equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb in terms of the heat it produces. So what happens to all this energy when you die if you cant destroy it ?
It goes to power the matrix!
Human powered bitcoin mining
Actually that was about Inedia. Or the energetic equivalent of it.
Yes that film was way more fucked up than most people realize.
August 05, 2012, 03:45:23 PM
I think there's a misconception at work here.
What Einstein meant was the equivalence of mass and energy, and the conservation of both.
The ~100W power output of the human body stems from chemical reactions, fed by burning food with oxygen. If you ask what happens to the energy stored in the mass of a human: nothing for all we know, the atoms remain.
If there were a way to convert the mass of a human into energy, the word "suicide bomber" would get a whole new meaning. It would be on the order of all nuclear bomb tests in history combined.
What Einstein meant was the equivalence of mass and energy, and the conservation of both.
The ~100W power output of the human body stems from chemical reactions, fed by burning food with oxygen. If you ask what happens to the energy stored in the mass of a human: nothing for all we know, the atoms remain.
If there were a way to convert the mass of a human into energy, the word "suicide bomber" would get a whole new meaning. It would be on the order of all nuclear bomb tests in history combined.
August 05, 2012, 10:15:25 AM
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
Thanks mufasa
August 05, 2012, 07:35:12 AM
~Einstein
A human body is about equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb in terms of the heat it produces. So what happens to all this energy when you die if you cant destroy it ?
A human body is about equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb in terms of the heat it produces. So what happens to all this energy when you die if you cant destroy it ?
It goes to power the matrix!
Human powered bitcoin mining
August 05, 2012, 07:34:34 AM
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
August 05, 2012, 07:33:29 AM
~Einstein
A human body is about equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb in terms of the heat it produces. So what happens to all this energy when you die if you cant destroy it ?
A human body is about equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb in terms of the heat it produces. So what happens to all this energy when you die if you cant destroy it ?
It goes to power the matrix!
August 05, 2012, 07:30:06 AM
When you die, you stop metabolizing and generating heat other than the chemical bonds breaking down. Most of that energy will be used by other life forms like mostly bacteria.
August 05, 2012, 07:26:54 AM
What happens to the energy of 100W light bulb when it breaks?
It's a nonsensical question.
It's a nonsensical question.
August 05, 2012, 07:01:20 AM
Umm, you stop converting energy from food to motion/ion channels/whatever and then into heat, so, this energy remains as food, which you didn't eat?
Did I get close? Can't tell if you are quizzing or questioning.
Did I get close? Can't tell if you are quizzing or questioning.
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