Follow The Bouncing Ball

All things are made of atoms of matter that are in turn an assembly of electrons, protons, neutrons and the energy that provides the force that bind those components to give them existence and the ability to exist as atoms. Even the neutrons and protons are assembled elementary components and the energy that provides the force that bind those components to give them existence as protons and neutrons.
Basically then, all things are elementary components and the energy that bind them into making things. A hydrogen atom for example is made of one proton, one electron and the energy that provides binding and its behavior is the product of those components. When hydrogen in the presence of oxygen is involved in combustion for example, there is a residue called “heat” and the electrons, protons and neutrons of which those atoms are made are realigned as H2O (water). So where did the released “heat” residue come from? If produced by the conversion of some of the mass (electrons, protons, and neutrons) how could they remain fully functional as electrons, protons and neutrons capable of assembly as H2O? The energy that provided the force that bound the Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms before combustion became the residue called “heat.” In the process of recombining as H2O molecules, a new core center (barycenter or center of gravity) was established with binding energy supplied through the universal gravitational attraction system.
All energy originates as the energy supplied as a fundamental component of atoms to produce the forces of binding with the residue after being expended, reduced to a form now customarily called “heat.” The way that energy is applied, that is the mechanics of application, are varied but the energy fundamental to the assembly of matter is the origin of all energy and in the end, all that remains after being expended, is “heat.” It makes no difference whether through decay, chemical action, combustion, or nuclear explosion (all the same thing) the residue of the energy that gave them existence and the capability to exist, is “heat”. Even what we perceive as light, remember light is not light without eyes to see, produced in the energy expending process ends as heat. (Consider the reaction when light photons impact matter.) So what is heat?
If heat is the residue of broken links of atomic binding energy, how does the residue of binding energy produce heat? People generally would conclude it is because that is what binding energy is made of. Actually, what is called “heat” is the reaction produced by the binding energy residue not the residue itself. We sense heat because our senses and brain interpret the pain signal from a cell damaged by the residue of expended binding energy as heat.
Consider the behavioral characteristics of heat. First, heat can exist and move only when absorbed by an atom or assembly of atoms or when being drawn (called radiation) by the attracting force of an atom or assembly of atoms. Second, heat is attracted to the atom or assembly of atoms that exerts the strongest binding force, wherein intervening distance is a factor. When the binding energy of an atom or assembly of atoms is expended attracting heat there is less binding power with which to bind itself and the involved assembly expands. It is in response to that process that materials change state from solid to liquid to gas to plasma. As atoms expand, a point is reached where bonds with their electrons or the electrons of other bonded atoms, are fragmented to release the residue of the energy that formed those bonds as “heat. In some cases, depending upon the characteristics of the structure of the atoms involved, the process progresses to a point where a chain reaction results in combustion or explosion and it does not matter whether the bonds fragmented were between the atom core center and orbiting electrons, between the core center and the nucleons of atom nuclei, or between the individual nucleons themselves.
Curious minds then may question the eventual repository for this energy residue. It would be nice to think that it gets recycled. Perhaps it eventually will. In the meantime there are at least two indicators of the life process remaining for energy residue. For one, it continues to raise the temperature of the mass where in it takes residence. As it raises temperature it causes expansion and is undoubtedly responsible for the ever-expanding universe. The solar wind, the energy residue from the sun, which flows out into space to serve no apparent useful purpose, is a graphic illustration of what happens when the ability to accommodate heat is exceeded. Even a significant portion of the energy filled photons emitted by the sun is dissipated in space with no evidence of being recycled to serve another purpose.
It should be obvious that the bouncing ball has shot a hole in the “Law of Conservation of Energy and Matter”. It has exposed the fact that because there is energy residue then energy is being consumed and if the source of that energy is matter, then matter is being consumed. Since matter is nothing but atoms that are assemblies of electrons, protons and neutrons, it stands that if converted to energy, the integrity of those components would be degraded. They would not only no longer be able to function as electrons, protons or neutrons but would eventually, especially after 12 billion years, be themselves consumed. The theory that matter is converted to produce the energy that binds atoms that is in turn the source of the energy in atomic and nuclear reactions is without basis. It is an unproven concept and incapable of being proven that does not stand up to logical scrutiny.
But where does the bouncing ball come to rest? Follow it from the individual atom, to the moon, to the earth, to the sun, to the center of the Milky Way, to the center of the Universe, the point of origin of the components used to make the first atom that included the first bit of binding energy. Recognize that the force of gravitational attraction that originates at the point where all things originated has the potential to serve as the mechanism by which the energy that produces binding is supplied. That concept sure stands up to logical scrutiny better than the conversion of matter to energy concept whether undertaken by a human or a physicist.