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Newton says an object has inertia and wants to remain unchanged.

Does how long the object remains unchanged matter? Say a molecule stays unchanged 1 second vs 2 seconds. Is there any difference between these two situations?

Please keep thinking before reading my hypothesis.

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It does matter a lot and the energy the molecule carries is proportional to how long it can stay unchanged, i.e., space and time both contain energy.

This argument is from the entropy. Particularly the free expansion experiment. For a gas expanding to vacuum space, molecules run into the empty space, and the entropy of the system increases. This increase is proportional to the time how long the molecules stay free to expand before hitting a wall. The time is correlated to the entropy growth of the system. Thus entropy is really a stored energy in the free space which have to be created before the expansion.

Thus, in conclusion, a molecule that remains unchanged in kinetics carries entropy over time when traveling in space. Molecules have both space energy (kinetics, potentials, and mass) and time energy (entropy).

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