Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Math in the Big BANG/ E=MC SQUARED

Has the speed of light changed since the birth of the Big Bang and did that effect the amount of energy in the universe from then and now?

The speed of light today is 299,792,458 meters per second. With that, it affects the amount of energy something has also being effected by its mass.

The equation derived from Einsteins work on special relativity. Special relativity is the theory tat the speed of light will always be constant. That eventually lead to his theory on general relativity. The equation E=MC2 demonstrates that energy equals mass ties the speed of light squared.The speed of light connects with energy because, "the resulting energy is by definition moving at the speed of light. Pure energy is electromagnetic radiation," (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/legacy.html). Due to the fact that the speed of light is squared, it makes even the smallest things have a lot of energy. "the speed of light squared is the conversion factor that decides just how much energy lies captured within a walnut or any other chunk of matter," (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/legacy.html).

Ultimately the equation shows that energy and matter are one.

HOW E=MC2 CONNECTS WITH BIG BANG

Has the speed of light changed since the birth of the Big Bang and did that effect the amount of energy in the universe from then and now?


Before the Big Bang explosion, there was one single atom that was about to explode, known as the Big Bang. In order to that one atom to
stretch out in its explosion over billions of miles in less that minute; it requires a lot of energy. In order for it to have a lot of energy for an atom, because the speed of light plays a big factor in the amount of energy, the speed of light during the big bang could be more that what our speed of light is today. Where this stems from is observational evidence that the "fine structure constant" has changed. The fine structure constant determines the exact wavelength of fine structure lines in the spectra of atoms, and measurements of the spectra of quasars suggest that it many have decreased by 0.00072 +/- 0.00018 % over the past 6-10 billion years," (http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=606).

With that given to us, it would most definitely affect the answer/energy of MC2
Because one atom exploded (according to the bi bang), its energy must have been a huge number for it to do what theorists say. What would make that energy a higher number would not be its mass because the mass of the universe was much much much smaller then now. The mass was one atom and today is billions of miles long. What had to have affected the energy to build up so much energy is the speed of light. The speed of light must have been a higher number when the uiverse started and has slowed down today.

Lets say our universe's mass is constant, from its birth to today. The only thing that has changed is the speed of light since birth to now. Today we could make up the equation:





E=MC2

E= energy

M= Universe's constant mass

C= 299, 792, 458 ^2 (speed of light)

Traveling back in time towards the birth of the universe, this equation would change based off of the theory that the speed of light was different then:

E=MC2

E= energy

M= Universe's constant mass

C=299, 792, 458.00072 ^2

When calculating the different speeds of lights squared by the same mass, the answer will be different, showing that the energy of the universe today is different from the birth of the universe; the energy was greater then.




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