Energy
primary axis · 833 hits · 4 branches
Branches it touches
- 02-physics — Newtonian kinetic, thermodynamics, Einstein E=mc², QFT vacuum energy
- 03-chemistry — Bond energy, Gibbs free energy, activation barriers
- 05-biophysics — Mitochondrial ATP, Mitchell chemiosmosis, Szent-Györgyi bioenergetics
- 06-cosmology — Dark energy, cosmological constant, inflation potential
Primary sources
- Newton — Principia (Definitions, Laws of Motion)
- Carnot — Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824)
- Einstein — 1905 mass-energy equivalence paper
- Mitchell — chemiosmotic theory papers (Nobel 1978 lecture)
- Szent-Györgyi — Bioenergetics (1957) [archive.org/bioenergetics00szen]
Notes / open questions
Tier: candidate primary axis.
The cleanest fusion in the corpus: Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory is literally
thermodynamics applied to membranes — a derivation, not a metaphor.
Bucket should treat "energy" as the most operationally-rigorous bridge.