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Text Box: E=MC2 E=MC2 is an important insight into reality, relatively speaking. E is energy. M is mass. C is the speed of light so C2 is the squared speed of light. The mass is measured in kilograms, the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s ro to 300,000,000, and the energy is measured in Joules. The amount of energy produced by 2 kg of salt (roughly 4.4 pounds) would be 2 x 300,000,000 x 300,000,000 = 180,000,000,000,000,000 if the Microsoft calculator which came with the computer with which this is being typed is correct. Since one Joule is roughly equal to the amount of energy released when one volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica is dropped on the floor, the energy which could be released from 2 kg of salt probably is a lot more than if all of the books ever, were dropped on the floor all at the same time. Incidentally, a random selection indicates a single volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica weighs 4.4 pounds. What is really nifty though, is that the Newtonian gravitational effect or the force of gravity from the 4.4 pounds of salt is the same as the force of gravity from all the Joules of energy the 4.4 pounds of salt would produce. So, lets say you measure the gravitational effect of 4.4 pounds of matter. Then you turn that matter into energy - if done instantaneously you have a nuclear explosion, if done slowly you are burning a log in the fireplace which doe not interest us here. We are interested in the big bang stuff. The gravitational effect of the 180,000,000,000,000,000 Joules is exactly the same as the gravitational effect of the 4.4 pounds (or 2 kg). That is not enough gravitational force to effect the flight of a flea, unless the flea were in a place of relative weightlessness. And even then the flea, despite its relative low mass, probably could escape the gravitational influence of the block of salt, or a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But the Joules of energy would vaporize the flea and

Text Box: everything around it for many miles (km). Think of gravitational effect as attraction. The 4.4 lbs object and the massive amount of energy both have the same attraction. Yet one, the object, is considered to be plain and unimpressive, and the other, the energy, is considered dynamic and impressive. When the energy has passed all that is left at the point where it passed is its effect, but the energy continues to travel and effect, but it has its greatest focused gravitational attraction at the instant of its conversion from mass. The object maintains its usefulness for as long as it continues as mass - be it salt or a book, and maintains its gravitational attraction. Its location can be changed and therefore its gravitational attraction can be moved from one location to another while maintaining its strength. Wow! Are matter and energy simply different forms of the same thing? If so, what is that thing? What about antimatter? We know it exists. Is there also something we should name antienergy? Do antimatter and antienergy have a gravitational effect; or perhaps an anti-gravitational effect? Of what use is this? Is there an analogy? A spiritual application? A moral simile? No, or perhaps, not necessarily. This is a thought exercise. Everything herein is factual. And it is extremely interesting that the gravitational force of a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica is the same as that of the energy of an atom bomb. It also is interesting that some would say the book is much more beneficial to mankind than the bomb, and that others would say the bomb has extremely useful peace time application while also serving to scare potential enemies into not killing those who wish to read the book. We as a civilization rarely engage in thought exercises, though they once

Text Box: were popular. They once were taught in school in many different forms. They once were used in social gatherings partially as entertainment and partially as stimulation and as a form of exploration. But today many civilizations have mental stimuli directly applied as visual and auditory input thus stimulating the mental processes; but not invoking thought. The frightening but true result is a society with the same mental activity as that used by a fish swimming in an aquarium, a five gallon aquarium. We do not think this is exactly what God intended. But then, what do we know? Well, we know that the gravitational force exerted by . . . +

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