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There's quite a famous formula for this actually:
E = mc^2
It implies that energy and mass are related. In fact mass is just a form of energy, just like kinetic energy. And heat is just a form of highly disordered kinetic energy. (For the scientists among us: I realize that heat is only referring to the transfer of internal energy and not to a form of energy by itself, and I do realize that internal energy is more than just kinetic energy, but this approximation will suffice for now.) This also explains why the atomic bombs produce such an enormous amount of heat: Matter is destroyed and turned into heat. Under extreme conditions you could imagine the reverse happening: Heat transforming into matter. To get something the size of the universe would require quite a bit of heat though, in the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima around 0.6 gram of matter was destroyed...
All of this assumes that normal physics can be applied to such a situation, which is highly unlikely. Our laws of physics aren't fundamental enough to explain such fundamental concepts. That's part of why so many scientists like to work on it.
And reaction kinetics are cool!
(metatarasal studies chemistry)
E = mc^2
It implies that energy and mass are related. In fact mass is just a form of energy, just like kinetic energy. And heat is just a form of highly disordered kinetic energy. (For the scientists among us: I realize that heat is only referring to the transfer of internal energy and not to a form of energy by itself, and I do realize that internal energy is more than just kinetic energy, but this approximation will suffice for now.) This also explains why the atomic bombs produce such an enormous amount of heat: Matter is destroyed and turned into heat. Under extreme conditions you could imagine the reverse happening: Heat transforming into matter. To get something the size of the universe would require quite a bit of heat though, in the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima around 0.6 gram of matter was destroyed...
All of this assumes that normal physics can be applied to such a situation, which is highly unlikely. Our laws of physics aren't fundamental enough to explain such fundamental concepts. That's part of why so many scientists like to work on it.
And reaction kinetics are cool!
(metatarasal studies chemistry)
