“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.” LongStillsBodyFallThreeEnergyStarsMillionsFireMinutesEventsPlanetsTinyBombsAtomsFierceLong AgoOur PlanetFractionsUnstableLumpsHydrogenHydrogen Bomb Author:James Lovelock
“For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.” GivingLightSeemsTruthEnergyForeverVirtueAtomsGrainMystic Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination.” WorldWayUsedReligionEnergyCausesImaginationSeaEventsHappeningsAverageRealmsEmptinessPairsLeapAtomsVoidDecayQuantumConservationParticlesVacuumsTransientBoilingShort LivedFluctuationEnergy ConservationSpacetime Author:Taner Edis
“The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.” IfsFirstsLittlesIdeasMatterEnergyPiecesTheoryTinyStringsAtomsParticlesStraightforwardMoleculesString Theory Author:Brian Greene
“UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.” ScienceEnergyBreakFleshAtomsMoleculesConstituentsHigh Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.” WorldMayHas BeensSaidEnergyNationsPovertyPolicyThirdsVictimHungerEnvyAwakeningAtomsForeign PolicyRepressionFission Author:John F. Kennedy
“The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.” YearsDoeStatesGovernmentAmericaEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEventsPossibilityIncreaseConstantBombsExecutivesPhenomenonAtomsFearfulExpansionConstructiveColossalAtom BombAtomic EnergyExecutive Power Author:Wheeler McMillen
“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between a living and a dead body is, that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction, which draws them asunder and scatters them through space. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to conceive such a thing as death where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy.” IfsMenBodyEnergyForceDifferencesSpaceUnitedPrinciplesCasesDrawsRegardActiveAttractionIntenseSuperiorsMysteriousManifestAtomsMoleculesLatentDispersion Book:Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase) Source: Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)
“It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.” HumansDifferentMatterMightMovingEnergyGrowthNaturalAnimalResultsGenerationsInfluenceEffectsSourceMiraclePlantSeedsRangeHeatFree WillAttributesAtomsVegetablesParticlesTemperatureAnimal LifeEnquiryFortuitousConcurrenceDaily Miracles Author:Lord Kelvin
“Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.” DifferentStatesEnergyForceInformationFieldsPhysicsAcknowledgeAtomsHierarchyForce Fields Author:Deepak Chopra
“The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.” GivingMadeBodyMovingEnergySpaceInformationHugeSourceEmptySpeedYour BodyAtomsVoidLightningParticlesEmpty SpaceFluctuationSubatomic Particles Author:Deepak Chopra