Matter In Our Surroundings and It's Forms

 Matter In Our Surroundings

One of the most famous formulas in the world is E = mC2, where E is energy, m is mass and C is the speed of light	Everything in the world can be organized around two concepts matter and energy. If something isn't matter, its energy.
Albert Einstein derived E = mC2, which simply says that matter can be transformed into energy and energy can be transformed into matter	Matter is made up of tiny particles called 'atoms'.There are more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000...... that's one sextrillion atoms in a single drop of water.
WHAT THEN IS MATTER? LET'S BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR MATTER

 

Matter and its Forms

Take a look at your surroundings. You may find a pencil, a book, an apple, a table or a chair. Can you feel the air blowing? These are different forms of matter. One or more of our senses can recognize these. These objects possess mass, occupy space and have different shapes, sizes and colours. All that we see, smell, taste or touch around us consists of matter.

Matter can be defined as anything that occupies space, (i.e., has a volume), possesses mass, offers resistance and can be felt through one or more of our senses.

Till very recently, it was assumed that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Scientists have established that there are two fundamental entities in the universe: Matter and Energy. They have also come to the conclusion that the total quantity of matter and of energy in the universe is constant. After the discovery of radioactivity, and work done by scientists like Einstein, it was realized that matter and energy are inter-convertible. It is this convertibility of matter into energy that is responsible for construction of atom bombs and nuclear reactors. Keeping these facts in mind, we can broadly define matter as "a condensed form of energy that has mass and extension in space and time."