Will the change in the (type? and) amount of energy change them?

If so, what are some of the possibilities?

Recently, astronomers from Middlebury College discovered one of the fastest-moving large objects ever observed, designated RX J0822-4300.

They calculated the neutron star is moving about 3 million miles per hour and has already traveled 20 light years. "It's so far away that the apparent motion we see in five years is less than the height of the numerals in the date on a penny, seen from the length of a football field," said Frank Winkler.

Since light moves at about 671 million miles per hour, the star is traveling at slightly under one-half of 1 percent of light speed.

It would take the star 20 million years to cross our galaxy from one end to the other, another 350 million years to reach the next-closest galaxy to ours.

Observation of this star tells us it is physically possible to accelerate a very heavy object to a measurable fraction of light speed; some physicists had contended that might always be impossible. So let's suppose humanity someday builds a spaceship capable of one-half of 1 percent of light speed.

A ship moving at half of 1 percent of the speed of light could reach Mars in about 10 hours and be at Saturn in about a day, but would still be a rowboat compared with cosmic distances -- requiring 800 years to reach the nearest star to our sun and 6 million years to reach the galactic center.

   -Gregg Easterbrook 

Everyone will have their own theories on what's wrong, and most likely 95% of those theories are true. Is it because a third party cannot get their foot in the door to compete with the Dem's & Repub's? Is it because very few consensuses can be reached in the House and Senate?  Is it because the American people feel their voices aren't being heard? Maybe the problem is that the government is working not for the will of the people, but for the will of those who contribute to their campaigns. Maybe the problem is the political figures aren't honest or consistent about their beliefes and what they will do, so the citizens really never know what they are getting with an elected official.

Of course, one could look at the media and place blame there - why aren't the important questions being asked or, when they are asked but a circular-logic answer is provided as a response, where's the follow-up asking for a real answer? When will the media get back to presenting both sides of the story with facts they actually ensured were accurate, thereby letting us make up our own decisions on the topic at hand?

In order to fix the system, people need to be honest and forthcoming and realize there's a difference between a discussion with opposing viewpoints and not let things escalate into an argument where people intend on changing the other person's point of view.  Once we know WHY everyone feels the system is broken, then we can talk about HOW it should be working, so we can finally determine WHAT actions need to be taken to make it better.

Until people have a forum to speak their intelligent minds freely and without fear of insulting acusatory responses, until we can come to an agreement of what is really wrong, and until there are numerous people in positions of power who aren't afraid to go against the satuts quo of our current system to make those changes happen, we will forever be stuck with the problems we have until the government finally gets overthrown (which I am NOT suggesting is the solution, mind you.)

While I feel things in life can exist without their opposites, I agree we need their opposites or some other point(s) of comparison in order to properly define what those things are. 

It doesn't bother me since I can't control their actions (thankfully they aren't my employees and their performance doesn't reflect on me).

I wonder if the instant gratification of TV and the internet has made people believe they should get what they want yesterday without working hard today. Note that I'm under 30 and these people are all older than me, so it's not your normal generation gap in effect.