by SpaceRip

September 10, 2010

from YouTube Website


What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, from the coldest and bleakest reaches of our galaxy on out to the hottest and most violent places known.

 

How and where do Earth and humanity fit within the immensely powerful scales that define our universe? If anyone would like to ponder the information in this video a little deeper, or explore some of our sources of information, check out the annotated transcript at http://www.SpaceRip.com.

All across the immense reaches of time and space, energy is being exchanged, transferred, released, in a great cosmic pinball game we call our universe.

To see how energy stitches the cosmos together, and how we fit within it, we now journey through the cosmic power scales of the universe, from atoms nearly frozen to stillness. To Earth's largest explosions. From stars colliding, exploding, to distant centers of power so strange, and violent, they challenge our imaginations.

Today, energy is very much on our minds, as we search for ways to power our civilization and serve the needs of our citizens.

  • But what is energy?

  • Where does it come from?

  • And where do we stand within the great power streams that shape time and space?

Energy comes from a Greek word for activity or working.

 

In physics, it's simply the property or the state of anything in our universe that allows it to do work. Whether it's thermal, kinetic, electro-magnetic, chemical, or gravitational.

The 19th century German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz found that all forms of energy are equivalent, that one form can be transformed into any other. The laws of physics say that in a closed system - such as our universe - energy is conserved.

 

It may be converted, concentrated, or dissipated, but it's never lost.