Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:14:40 UTC No. 16209395

Yeah

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:24:33 UTC No. 16209402

stick your hand in a mouse trap and find out

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:28:45 UTC No. 16209409

>>16209387
find a big capacitor, lick it and find out

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 08:48:14 UTC No. 16209424

>>16209409
>simply doesn't lick it
Potentialoids need mental help. "Uahh I have potential cleanliness!" they screech merely because they own a shower (that goes completely unused)

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 10:21:40 UTC No. 16209512

>>16209387
>Is potential energy physically real or just a convenient mathematical tool?
Is the force on the string before it is released, "real"?
It depends on how you define real. The force is there, you're burning energy to keep that string taught. by pulling on it.
How about a rock on top of a hill, is there not a measurable applied on it by gravity, constantly?
How about the electrons on the pole of a battery, are they not "crushed" against each other, in such way that they would flow to some place else where they would not be?
It's your own personal definition, you decide what "real" means.

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 10:22:41 UTC No. 16209513

>>16209512
>measurable applied force
fixed

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:12:19 UTC No. 16210334

>>16209402
>>16209409
That's kinetic energy.

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:51:25 UTC No. 16210407

>>16209387
Kinetic energy is the energy associated with motion.
Potential Energy is just non-moving-associated energy stored in the fields, whether it's a spring, a chemical bond, a gravitational field, etc.

Field can have momentum too, because momentum is actually based on the movement of all forms of energy.

A better question for you to ask would be do fields exist, or are they mathematical tools?

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:58:40 UTC No. 16210424

>>16210407
I would also like to continue to mention that outside the normal "fields are real" stuff, there is a good question on whether or not the fields are just properties of the objects that make them. Like, the rest mass of the electron, how much of this is due to the fact that it has electric charge? All of it? If you calculate the energy of the electric field of one electron, assuming point particles are real, you would get an infinite amount of energy in the fields. But obviously we can destroy an electron with a positron and you don't get infinite energy.

Some of this is always mentioned in classical E&M books like Griffiths. Griffith mentions that even though Maxwell's equations look it it says the fields make charges and current densities, you can easily rearrange them so it says that charge densities and current densities cause the fields.
Richard Feynman's Electron Mass lecture is also something I highly recommend.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 07:51:06 UTC No. 16211186

>>16209387
>Is potential energy physically real or just a convenient mathematical tool?
This is not a science thread, it's philosophy thread. See:
>>16209544

Also, Newton's Flaming Laser Sword