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energy = mass x the speed of light squared.
What kind of day dreamer dreams up such a formula?
If you think about the energy being released when mass is turned into energy and you translate that force into the bond that holds a nucleus together; that's the math, that's what gives us these forces that supposedly hold together a nucleus. We begin with the concept that energy is released if we break the bonds, break up the nucleus, and we conclude that the force must exist, holding the nucleus together. So, it is all math, there was no experiment that measured these forces in a lab, we merely conclude that the force is present since we perceive the energy is released from breaking the bond.
This is really a leap of faith. Physicists saw Einstein's formula and jumped to the conclusion that energy would be released if you could separate the nucleus. Then when it happened in the real world, they were sure they got it right. But as yet, it is still new theory and there may be lots of other ways of looking at it, we are still observing nature, and not doing much more than naming the animals that God created. In this case, we pretend that these forces exist, primarily because of the math. It may turn out that the particular elements involved in nuclear bombs happen to react with the atmosphere and the whole idea of mass converting into energy doesn't really happen, and these pretend forces that hold together a nucleus may not exist. It could very easily all be as wrong as the idea that a heavier object falls faster than a light object.
Man has a nature, as it were, a tendency to latch onto ideas and feelings; we fall into beliefs, we perceive the world in this fashion. It looks very much like something like a small moon of Mars struck our planet 12,000 years ago, causing global warming, re-orientation of the continents, the melting of an ice cap and the massive flooding that resulted from that; along with an extra 400 feet of mean sea level for the oceans, and the total destruction of civilization. Man retreated inland, and the faith of mankind retreated inward to fears and superstition. The gods were no longer to be trusted. Now they would be feared instead of trusted and that my friends is the worldwide (catholic: common) faith. Religion was established to appease the anger of the gods. Gone is the former harmony of mankind with his maker.
Today, there is war in heaven. The angels are fighting with each other. Our dysphagia could not be worse, and yet, we are completely blind to it. Mankind knows something is wrong, but he doesn't know what it is, or why it is. We have completely lost our way as a species, what started out in the image and likeness of God, has turned into a global mayhem of confusion and panic, and facing the future scares us to death.
In a nutshell, we have this concept that if we behave ourselves like good children, we will go to a good place when we die. All religions in the world are based upon death and resurrection. If there is a collective conscience of mankind, this is it, this is what we all cling to inwardly as we face certain death outwardly; that we will all die at some point, everyone knows that; what happens afterward, no one knows for sure. How it came to this; an entire planet of uncertainty, is no doubt the fall-out of growing back from the destruction of civilization 12,000 years ago. As we re-learn who and what we are, we look back in horror and look forward with fear, and when we look up to heaven, all we see is chaos. What began as a very good project is coming apart at the seams, and it seems the more we learn, the less sure we are, that things are going to be okay. The best we can hope for is that God will get each of us individually through the turmoil ... only to end up dead as the person that didn't make it through ... and what human isn't afraid to die?
In the final analysis. All our religion and science might be wrong. We may have stumbled to this point in time in utter confusion. Our entire understanding of existence might be flawed. We don't know. We perceive the world through this amazing apparatus of eyes and brain, but what we perceive is entirely inside our heads, and all that is called knowledge, all that we think we know; it amounts to a collective of guesswork down through the Ages, the very act of knowing something is in itself an act of faith; we only know what we believe we know, there is no objective knowledge apart from our faith; knowledge is nothing more than what we enter, what we believe, and what we end up clinging to.