What really matters to you? Can it be destroyed? Or, consider this: Can you gain somehow from the destruction of what matters to others? Is there something in ‘what matters’ to any of us, regardless of what it is, that can be conserved and transferred just as every chemical reaction conserves mass in a balanced equation? What of reputations? What of ideas? Is there a Law of Conservation of ‘What Matters’? Does ‘what matters’ to you energize others to destroy it and to convert it into their own energy, particularly as energy spread at the speed of the Internet or Social Media? Could we use Einstein’s M=E/C^2 in some way? Maybe like this:
Et =WmC^2 or, converted to show Wm on the left side of the equation:
Wm = Et/VS ^2
where Wm equals ‘what matters’; Et equals the energy of trolling; and VS equals viral speed with which trolling spreads around the world, essentially at the speed of electromagnetic waves.
Of concern to some because of the accident at Chernobyl, a Russian floating nuclear power plant called the Academik Lomonosov will sit in Arctic waters to supply energy to a remote region of the country. It isn’t the first floating power plant; such plants have been in use off and on for a half century, the first, I believe, having been used at the Panama Canal. I suppose the nuclear engineers have done their homework and have designed a safe system that will be nothing like the failed Chernobyl plant, but I can see why some environmentalists have concerns: Were an accident to happen in the Arctic, radiation could spread across the Northern Hemisphere. However, if cold water is the cure for overheating power stations, well, then the Arctic Academik Lomonosov will always sit in the pharmacy, that is, in failsafe icy waters.
I’m not one to be too concerned about that nuclear power plant. There’s been ample incentive for the Russians to take every precaution in its design. Certainly, they don’t want to make their mineral-rich region another danger zone that excludes the Russian people from the country’s natural resources.
When I read about the Lomonosov, I was intrigued by the name of the power plant. Mikhaylo Vasilyevich Lomonosov was an eighteenth-century genius who, separately from Lavoisier, gave us the Law of Mass Conservation. Reading about his namesake floating nuclear power plant made me think of all the energy put into social media and another type of reaction and principle of “conservation.”
The Law of Matter/Mass Conservation, as defined by Lomonosov, is easy enough to understand because we see it in everyday chemical reactions and in obesity. We can test the “law” or “principle” with a scale: Merely weigh the original constituents before and after a reaction. Most of us have had to balance a chemical equation at some time or other, even it were merely in an equation called a cook book recipe.
Conserving mass/matter isn’t an invention. It’s the way Nature works, and it appears to be inviolable. However, conserving ‘what matters’ is a human endeavor with mixed results, especially more mixed in an age of social media and chat rooms that house a seemingly very large population of “trolls” who focus their energy on personal destruction.
Although I try to ignore the reactions of Internet trolls, I do know they exist, and I see in their reactions an attempt to apply a law of chemistry to their personal philosophy and psychology. I think trolls believe they can “transfer” what matters to another into what matters to themselves. They practice a destructive “chemistry” in the lab of the Internet. They appear to think that just as burning a log produces carbon dioxide, water, and ash, conserving the matter of the log in different substances, so trolling conserves by turning the ‘what matters’ of others into their own ‘what matters.’
Internet trolls practice a destructive chemistry that does not, regardless of their belief, transfer the good of others into an equivalent matter. Just as over-the-backyard-fence-gossips have tried to destroy ‘what matters’ in other lives in the belief that some substance from the destruction adds to their own mass reputation, so trolls seem to believe they conserve ‘what matters’ in its altered state. But, in truth, destroying ‘what matters’ to others isn’t analogous to the chemical principle by which mass/matter changes, as in the burning of a log.
Like Chernobyl, the faulty nuclear power plant that for a number of years put out energy but eventually polluted its own surroundings and made itself useless to its makers, trolling has no guaranteed failsafe mechanism to protect a troll from the potential bad consequences of his or her trolling. If destroying 'what matters' matters to trolls, they will eventually discover that they conserve nothing but hate.
Et =WmC^2 or, converted to show Wm on the left side of the equation:
Wm = Et/VS ^2
where Wm equals ‘what matters’; Et equals the energy of trolling; and VS equals viral speed with which trolling spreads around the world, essentially at the speed of electromagnetic waves.
Of concern to some because of the accident at Chernobyl, a Russian floating nuclear power plant called the Academik Lomonosov will sit in Arctic waters to supply energy to a remote region of the country. It isn’t the first floating power plant; such plants have been in use off and on for a half century, the first, I believe, having been used at the Panama Canal. I suppose the nuclear engineers have done their homework and have designed a safe system that will be nothing like the failed Chernobyl plant, but I can see why some environmentalists have concerns: Were an accident to happen in the Arctic, radiation could spread across the Northern Hemisphere. However, if cold water is the cure for overheating power stations, well, then the Arctic Academik Lomonosov will always sit in the pharmacy, that is, in failsafe icy waters.
I’m not one to be too concerned about that nuclear power plant. There’s been ample incentive for the Russians to take every precaution in its design. Certainly, they don’t want to make their mineral-rich region another danger zone that excludes the Russian people from the country’s natural resources.
When I read about the Lomonosov, I was intrigued by the name of the power plant. Mikhaylo Vasilyevich Lomonosov was an eighteenth-century genius who, separately from Lavoisier, gave us the Law of Mass Conservation. Reading about his namesake floating nuclear power plant made me think of all the energy put into social media and another type of reaction and principle of “conservation.”
The Law of Matter/Mass Conservation, as defined by Lomonosov, is easy enough to understand because we see it in everyday chemical reactions and in obesity. We can test the “law” or “principle” with a scale: Merely weigh the original constituents before and after a reaction. Most of us have had to balance a chemical equation at some time or other, even it were merely in an equation called a cook book recipe.
Conserving mass/matter isn’t an invention. It’s the way Nature works, and it appears to be inviolable. However, conserving ‘what matters’ is a human endeavor with mixed results, especially more mixed in an age of social media and chat rooms that house a seemingly very large population of “trolls” who focus their energy on personal destruction.
Although I try to ignore the reactions of Internet trolls, I do know they exist, and I see in their reactions an attempt to apply a law of chemistry to their personal philosophy and psychology. I think trolls believe they can “transfer” what matters to another into what matters to themselves. They practice a destructive “chemistry” in the lab of the Internet. They appear to think that just as burning a log produces carbon dioxide, water, and ash, conserving the matter of the log in different substances, so trolling conserves by turning the ‘what matters’ of others into their own ‘what matters.’
Internet trolls practice a destructive chemistry that does not, regardless of their belief, transfer the good of others into an equivalent matter. Just as over-the-backyard-fence-gossips have tried to destroy ‘what matters’ in other lives in the belief that some substance from the destruction adds to their own mass reputation, so trolls seem to believe they conserve ‘what matters’ in its altered state. But, in truth, destroying ‘what matters’ to others isn’t analogous to the chemical principle by which mass/matter changes, as in the burning of a log.
Like Chernobyl, the faulty nuclear power plant that for a number of years put out energy but eventually polluted its own surroundings and made itself useless to its makers, trolling has no guaranteed failsafe mechanism to protect a troll from the potential bad consequences of his or her trolling. If destroying 'what matters' matters to trolls, they will eventually discover that they conserve nothing but hate.
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