Welcome Post, the Second

Decompositions of the name.

Momenergy = Momentum + Energy.

Physics. So these authors must really love Physics to dedicate their blog name to it?

True.

In fact, momentum and energy are the most fundamental concepts in Physics. Conservation of momentum and energy have been around for a long time, and remains the cornerstone of every new formalism and new theory in modern physics. Even though seemingly fundamental laws like Newton's laws, the uniformity and absolute nature of space and time (what is now known as the Galilean formalism) have gone through radical transformations and reinterpretations, conservation of momentum and energy largely retain their classical interpretations (although relativity does provide a unification of the two ideas as two manifestations of an equivalent phenomenon).

We named the blog Momenergy as a sort of tribute to the two fundamental laws. Also, it sounded cool at the time. (Also, also, it can be thought of as Mom + Energy, the best of both 1950s domestic life and physics.)

This blog will not exclusively focus on Physics. It will more be a mixture of different subjects like math, economics, physics (duh) and perhaps literature and creative writing. There will be a mixture of formats, from quick updates on something that is going on in our lives to random musings, to more serious entries.

I hope everyone enjoys reading this blog as much as we enjoy writing it!

P.S. The next four days will be the annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt. I will be documenting some of the events and photos here. Hope it all goes well!