I said to my friend that E = mc^2 might as well be a formula in chemistry and not physics like we always think. I think energy and matter are very much chemistry related qualities.
He was opposed to this and told me:
>NO. Chemistry _only_ concerns itself with what happens in the outer electron shell. Nothing more
I told him this can't be true. He still insisted everything in chemistry is about the outer electrons doing shit.
Which one of us is right?
your friend is right, stuff that happens in the nucleus of an atom is physics, and the bonding of atoms into compounds is chemistry
What a small mind you have. Acid and base reactions are proton swapping reactions, and they are not considered physics by a long shot.
the proton movement is physics, chemistry is derived from physics, physics is not derived from chemistry.
You're going around the subject and avoiding the argument.
Don't bring kinematics into this. Acid/base shit is clearly as chemistry as you can get and its definition is two molecules exchanging protons. This is non-electron related chemistry and disproves the "chemistry is only about valence electrons" bullshit.
OP here again.
In conclusion, chemistry needs a broader definition.
In reality chemistry isn't only about electrons. It's about matter and how matter forms compounds, how the compounds react with each other and transform. Chemistry is about change in matter. This is usually studied in a larger perspective than in physics. But still, the transformations of matter and the transfer of energy are chemistry.
Thus, Einstein's famous formula E = mc^2 belongs in chemistry, and chemistry alone.
Einstein was, in essence, a chemist.
Let me rephrase that.
Einstein was a theoretical chemist.
>in conclusion
>after talking to a random stranger for a total of 5 posts, I decree
Faggot, go take this up with someone that actually studies this shit snd see what they tell you instead of jerking yourself off like a retard.
This.
Math > Physics > Chemistry > Biology
Been a while since i did chem but i never understood how that shit worked. I know some acids can lose or gain whichever fuck it is 2 protons instead of of one