If you know of anyone else who could every concievably come up with such a whacko idea as the one following, please let me know so that I can hunt them down, meet them, and have a cosmic collision.
Sitting around bored in Physics class, I began to think about the relationship between units and how to bring them together into one interdependent conceptual model, and as an afterthought, what this meant about the fundamental makeup of the universe and our souls.
No joke.
Just listen if you want to, or go do something more normal.
So, here's some reasoning:
The resting state of things is mass in motion - mv - momentum(Newtons 1st Law). This should be our base. Force is the rate of change of the direction of motion.
Energy is normally thought of as force times distance, which I guess then is the progress of force, or the total change in direction. This is doubly seen by things like kinetic energy 1/2mv^2, which is the integral of momentum mv with respect to v. Potential energy is simply the amount that the velocity will change in the future.
Power, the most complex unit in our system (excepting the dimensions of charge and temperature - which I think ought to be energy anyway), is slightly more difficult.
I guess it's just the time-rate-of-change of the energy, which is the progress of change in velocity. In this way, power seems very close to force (interesting how the non-scientific words have meanings as well). However, it's not the same in units. Perhaps it ought to be more like the derivative of force, or the second derivative of momentum. It's not too clear.
However, let's stary applying it anyway. The fundamental state of human beings is mass in motion. We have goals and move towards them with a given velocity. Forces arund us tend to change our goals, forces = desires or other ideas of things to attain or methods by which to behave. Our path through life as our velocity is changed and refined to a more wise direction is then energy, or work. So it takes work to become mature. Power is then the rate at which we mature.
This may clarify the problem of power versus force. Force, the rate of change of speed, is only a force or tendency, not an actual movement. When multiplied by the actual variable we are attemptin to change, velocity, then it is the rate of change of actual progress.
In more concrete and laughable terms, let us provide a spiritual example. A person (mass), has a certain set of goals (velocity) set by a variety of desires, temptations, or healthy wants (forces). So Joe Christian (mass) reads the bible regularly (velocity) because God is cool (force). Over time (distance, actually) he learns more about God (work). BUT, as he learns more, God gets cooler (change in force) and so he reads more often (change in velocity) and learns faster (power).
The problem with this is that force in the physical universe continually affects velocity. So I would modify Joes life to say that only over short intervals of time does he see that God is awesome, and so each time he increases velocity. Energy is simply the summation of all these changes in direction, and power is the rate at which this progress grows. So power could be seen as the frequency at which he sees God.
Are you wierded out yet? Have you even made it this far? Well, good news, you're almost done.
Application (can that even exist in this post?)
All people are going somewhere. You can't be undecided, even with no forces around, if a person is already in motion, they will stay in motion down a good or bad path.
Second is a suggestion to increase your seeking after God so that you will see him more often and have more POWER! HAHAHA!
