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I hear that atoms vibarate at a regular frequency?

If EVERYTHING is made of atoms,then is everything is energy?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    this seems to be two question, yes atoms vibrate as a regular frequency, and unlike what some one said no matter how much energy you put in until they have so much they fly apart. think of two atoms as two balls at either end of a spring, oh and imagine they are on a table with no friction, if you pull them apart a little they will vibrate back and forth at a particular frequency, pull them further apart and they will still have the same frequency, just a larger amount of movement, but put enough energy in and the spring will break and they will fly apart.

    Now for the second part, yes everything is made of atoms, so yes everything is energy, but what you have to realise is that matter and energy are really the same thing, hence E=MC^2

    Source(s): HAIL SATAN, LORD OF THE EARTH
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The two questions are not exactly related.

    Molecular bonds vibrate at a particular frequency depending on the energy applied. This is the basis of magnetic resonance imaging and is also the reason thing get hot in a microwave oven. So bonds absorb energy to vibrate.

    Mass can be converted to energy in line with the equation E=mc^2. This doesn't mean everything made of atoms is made of energy, what it means is that everything has an equivalent amount of energy.

    Any help?

  • 1 decade ago

    Actually magnetic resonance imaging is a nuclear phenomenon - certain atomic nuclei, among them hydrogen) absorb energy in the radio frequency range when they are in a magnetic field. The body having a very large proportion of hydrogen can be mapped (natably the water density in the various tissues. Molecular bonds absorb electromagnetic radiation in the IR region and give rise to IR spectra.

    Also T=0 K is unattainable-suppose T=0 is attainable, the uncertainty principle forbids it - at T=0 atomic motion would have ceases and therefor the postion of an atom could be ascertained with arbitrary precision but in addition the atom is at rest and therefor its momentum is zero with arbitrary precision but there two properties cannot be known arbitrarily precisely at the same time. A logical contradiction disproving the original premise that absolute zero is attainable.

    Atoms do vibrate at regular frequencies but in a multitude of ways which I suspect the questioner would not associate as the sort of vibration they envisage.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Atoms have resonant frequencies. Macroscopic objects have resonant frequencies and sometimes these can be good or bad. A aeolian harp sounding in the wind or the Tacoma-Narrows bridge collapsing.

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  • 1 decade ago

    So that is what that funny feeling is I get. I'm sure it was called something else. Never heard it called atoms before.

    Interesting.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well the accepted theory is that the big bang exploded, and that was all energy. that energy became quarks, which became atoms, which made everything. so yes, everything is energy in a way.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes...of course.

    Inclusively, at T = 0 K there is a movement of oscillators

    n = (n + 1/2)h/2pi w

  • 1 decade ago

    Have you never heard of E=MC2 where energy and mass are interchangeable?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You've got bl**dy good hearing!

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