A10: Energy, Primary Energies, Certitude Factors, and the Universal Imbalance Principle - First Iteration

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Energy is the true, magic word: it means life, development, wealth, space travel, contacts with alien civilizations, and ... everything. To us, now, energy is particularly important because we are faced with a terrible energetic crisis--the fossil oil reserves are beginning to disappear!

Few people know what the oil crisis actually means, and that is not good, because people should know what is going to come. For us, oil means:
1. fuels for transportation
2. production of electrical energy
3. raw materials for the plastics industry
4. raw materials for many (better said, most) chemical products; for example, medicinal drugs, or paints
The good news is, we do have technological means to compensate for each of the above without any fossil oil--and we could do things even better! The bad news is, we cannot do anything, because we do not have a strong, united, healthy social mentality.

The spectrum of the coming oil crisis appeared the first time in 1974. At that time, the little, diplomatic oil-crisis was solved behind closed doors--details are not even important. What is important is, although the world was well aware about the future developments of the oil-crisis, and people wanted to implement changes that would curb down oil consumption, things went in fact in the wrong direction. In that glorious year 1974 hydrogen was first presented officially as a perfect alternative to fossil oil, and that has ended the crisis. However, 31 years later we do not have a working hydrogen infrastructure, although 31 years in the life of a civilization in crisis is a lot!

The actual and the future oil-crises are important because they will disrupt our comfortable way of life. They will bring inflation, and the costs of living will increase to absurd levels. That will generate (and it generates) great social unrest. However, whenever the oil price goes up, the most part of the money are pure, extra benefits for few individuals. What we are dealing with, during the actual and future oil-crises, is in fact a social crisis. There were and there are many solutions to the technological oil-crisis, but they face a fierce opposition from few individuals who make now, and in the future, enormous benefits from the depleted oil reserves. Amazingly, despite the fact they are just a few, a handful of rapacious brainless individuals, they win the fight against the entire world!

Particularly interesting is, the vast majority of the people (the voters) don't care a bit about any oils-crises, although they will be the ones to suffer most. Even worse, the democratic majority supports exactly those few wealthy individuals who are pushing them further down into poverty! That clearly shows our social education is well below the minimum required for a healthy, prosperous civilization.

Now, do not worry because we have no intention to discuss about fossil oil, or about social structures--not now. Our focus in this article is PURE ENERGY, as it is seen in physics. The first, interesting aspect is, we are able to measure energy quantitatively. From the quality point of view, however, we use lots of names for energy: "exergy", "anergy", "internal energy", "energetic levels" and so on, but the truth is, we have no idea what that energy thing means, or is.

It is obvious energy appears following the potential difference of two states: one positive and one negative. One single state is not sufficient to generate energy. In order to exist, energy needs, first of all, a difference of energetic potential. For us, the humans, it is easy to use energy, but it is difficult to understand it. Our environment has a certain temperature range, a gravity vector, and even oxygen: these conditions create one side of the energetic potential. What is left for us is to discover, and to exploit, the independent, two-sides energetic potential, but this is another story.

Now, the abstract, mathematical notion of energetic potential, or gradient of energy, needs to have some concrete basis, something more ... substantial, because potential difference by itself doesn't help us much. We need a term for those two energetic states, and because there is none, we took the liberty of naming it "Primary Energies", or "Primordial Energies". To get a visual picture, try to imagine many layers of "something" very cold, invisible, and totally inert, energetically. Of course, this picture is very foggy and confusing, but at that level of Primary Energies things are more ideological in nature than material. That level is what we name the "Subatomic".

I was very young when I discovered the famous Einstein's energy equation, and I was simply stunned. At that time I believed the materialist-dialectic philosophy was able to explain perfectly clear all our Life and the Universe. However, Einstein's equation revealed that matter was in fact a form, or a sum of forms of energies. I asked myself: what is energy from materialist-dialectic point of view? My answer, then, was very clear: an idea!

Soon I discovered that Einstein's energy equation is a childish mechanical speculation. What Mr. Einstein did is, he started with the existing formula of "Kinetic Energy" which defines any moving mechanical body.
W = 1/2 * m * v²
The above formula is currently known and used in grade 9 Physics today, and during Mr. Einstein's days. The next "thing" Mr. Einstein did was to replace the speed "v" with the speed of light "c" which he has defined as being a constant and the maximum limit possible.
W = 1/2 * m * c²
However, Mr. Einstein has postulated that the speed of light is a constant: dividing a constant doesn't make much sense, therefore he simply took out the 1/2 division and ... Bingo!
E = m * c²
Of course, it is plain to everybody that the "famous Einstein's energy formula" is just a bad joke. The above formula refers to a mechanical body moving with the speed of light; however, internal energy contained in the atoms of that body is billion times times greater than mechanical energy. Einstein's famous energy equation is just a childish (grade nine level) mechanical joke. Now, particularly because it was "mechanical" the equation was quickly accepted and "understood" by everybody; next, Mr. Einstein became overnight "a genius". Well!

Anyway, Primary Energies are not quite ideas; they need to have a true, real, substance of some sort. However, what is interesting is, there must be something else, lower than Primary Energies, which forces the Primary Energies to interact intelligently with each other. That interaction creates the atomic components we know, and the Atomic Universe comes into material existence. For us, the atoms are capable of generating measurable quantities of heat, light, and other energies.

So, what could be further down from the Primary Energies? At one particular moment in time we considered that there are some "factors", more like ideas, which are driving the Primary Energies. However, those idealistic factors do have some remarkable particularities which deny, again, the idealistic notion: first of all they are a Certitude! Naturally, because nobody ever though of that before we took again the liberty to name those factors, "Certitude Factors".

The idea is, the Certitude Factors exist, and they have a specific purpose: they "push" Primary Energies in the Subatomic to create the Atomic Universe. Of course, the new thorny issue was: why do the Certitude Factors exist? Well, they exist because they are Certitude Factors. Ha, ha! (This is a joke.) No, the Certitude Factors exist because there are few very important "Fundamental Reasons" which force them into existence. Those Reasons are defined in the "Universal Imbalance Principle".

Now, we are closer to the roots of things, although not quite. As it is explained in Learn Hardware Firmware and Software Design, there are methods of dealing with projects that may seem to be above our power to execute them, or to understand them. It is explained there a practical method: we start with Global Picture, then we corner our problem theoretically down to the very roots. Sure, many aspects are still unknown and unclear after that action, and the next step is to go back to Global Picture. Next ...

"Those are SF literature speculations!" the critics will cry. Well, dear friends, let us point out some true, real evidences. The first one is the Big-Bang (or the Little-Pop) theory. Although that is just a theory, the fact that we do exist, now, means the Big-Bang itself also happened some time ago. Think of what has determined, or pushed, that NOTHING to become our Atomic Universe.

The second argument is that little piece of rock mentioned in A8. Try to imagine the entire Atomic Universe is only dead rock--sooner or later we will end up there. That dead matter Universe requires fantastic quantities of energies to simply exist, and they come again from ... NOWHERE! Of course, there are many more disturbing evidences and, possibly, we will summarize them in these web pages, in the coming articles.

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First published on June 02, 2005 
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