Description: A motet for Christmas Day from Selectae quaedam cantiones sacrae, Nuremberg, 1571. Published as the pendant second part of the motet Hodie Christus natus est, this edition is offered as an independent piece.
The universe is made up of matter and energy. Matter â anything that has mass and takes up space â is pretty straightforward and easy to grasp, but energy is a bit more abstract. In physics, energy is the ability to do work, or the ability to move or elicit change in matter.
The same effect occurs with quantum particles, and not just with light. A neutron, for example, can decay into a proton, electron and anti-neutrino. The mass of these three particles is less than the mass of a neutron, so they each get some energy as well. So energy and matter are really the same thing. Completely interchangeable. And finally, Although energy and mass are related through special relativity, mass and space are related through general relativity.