Well, first of all, let's not lose sight of what I was responding to: "Matter doesn't disappear or magically go away. Matter can't be destroyed." [emphasis added]Originally Posted by Flixy
It doesn't really magically go away, it's just transformed into energy, so it's not magically gone!And it's not really relevant in our day to day life, I think - matter around us mostly doesn't disappear or magically go away.
And as they say, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic... I think that vaporizing an entire city for the destruction of a microscopic amount of matter definitely falls in the "magically" category. (Maybe one of the physics folks here could tell us how much mass is actually consumed in a nuclear explosion... but it's shockingly tiny... that c^2 value is apparently quite large.)
Well, maybe it's not relevant to our every day life... well, provided you don't have radium on your watch dial, or get your juice from a nuclear plant, or tend not to think about the universe around you and whatnot, but again, let's remember how we started down this merry little path of physics-for-the-insane: GGT comparing a mass-less, matter-less political organization with matter, to make the point that organizations can never dissolve or go away, apparently. Talk about "holy effing, Batman."
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