The scary things that sometimes go through my mind....

A few months ago, I did a post about relativity, the unified field theory and the theory of everything (look here, here and finally here) For some reason, sometimes I just think about that stuff while I'm driving.....my mind just wanders.

Yesterday, I did a lot of driving and got to thinking about the article mentioned in the third post that said Einstein's E=mC^2 equation had been validated. The most amazing part of that (in my mind) is the statement that 95% of everything we see is 'relatavistic mass' (increased mass due to the speed of sub-nuclear particles)

Then, here is where my mind went...

• cold slows motion down, heat increases motion


• most things, when frozen, contract and expand when heated


• dihydrogen monoxide (aka water) does the opposite, it expands when frozen, and contracts when it heats up


• the definition of absolute zero (0 Kelvin) is that all molecular motion stops

From this, I came up with these questions...

• is the contraction/expansion of most materials due to temperature changes related to the slowing down/speeding up of sub-nuclear particles?


• if so, why is water different?


• Based on what we know, absolute zero is unacheivable (just like the speed of light) but if all molecular motion stopped at that point, would a material be reduced to 5% of it original mass?

I'd really like to talk to a physicist about this stuff. I know someone out there that could probably shed some light on this. Is Mr. Happy out there?
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