I really do admire your faith in science Barbarian, but I do not share it always with you.
If you understand it, you don't need faith. You only need evidence.
Are you sure if we push two nuclei together it releases energy ?
Yep, for any nuclei lighter than Iron-56. Below that mass, the reaction is exothermic, meaning the binding energy of the new nucleus is less than the binding energy of the two original nuclei. That excess energy is released. This is why supergiant stars live until they bind all their nuclei into Iron, after which the fusion suddenly halts (you can fuse heavier elements, but the reaction is endothermic, requiring energy to proceed). At that point, the star implodes, and the resulting massive collapse produces all the elements heavier than iron.
How so....E=mc2 is about matter coming apart, releasing energy.
No, it's about the total amount of energy in matter. The strong force only accounts for part of the energy in matter.
Pushing nuclei together should absorb energy?
Until they pass the point at which the strong force operates, and then suddenly that force overcomes electromagnetic force, and the nuclei fuse. The new nucleus, if the elements are lighter than iron, has a binding energy lower than the two elements combined, and that extra energy is released.
So what grand equation do you propose that says when nuclei come together, it also releases energy ?
The term nuclear binding energy may also refer to the energy balance in processes in which the nucleus splits into fragments composed of more than one nucleon, and in this case the binding energies for the fragments, as compared to the whole, will be higher. If new binding energy is available when light nuclei fuse, or when heavy nuclei split, either of these processes result in releases of the binding energy. This energy, available as nuclear energy, can be used to produce electricity (nuclear power) or as a nuclear weapon. When a large nucleus splits into pieces, excess energy is emitted as photons (gamma rays) and as kinetic energy of a number of different ejected particles (nuclear fission products).
The nuclear binding energies and forces are on the order of a million times greater than the electron binding energies of light atoms like hydrogen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy
Truly since we are discussing God and his similes of power, I have to laugh at this, science will never explain this at all....just as science cannot explain where life came from, except that GOD created it perfectly from the beginning.
The binding energies and mechanisms for fusion and fission are rather well understood.
Science is supposed to reveal God's handiwork and marvel, not reduce God to some naturalistic causation.
Science can't say anything at all about God, since it is unable to even discuss the supernatural. It's role is only to understand the physical universe. Fortunately, although science can't comprehend anything about God, scientists can. My understanding of nature, which He created, has enriched my faith in Him. Often, when I am alone in His creation, my understanding of that creation connects with my faith in Him, and that is always a small epiphany for me, one of the most spiritual things I have experienced.
I took this not far from my home.
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.
