Like, i know it’s the ability to do work and all that, but this isn’t what energy is, it’s what energy does. What IS energy tho?
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I’ve often wondered what energy is as well. On a fundamental level. I never took advanced classes in HS and college was out of reach so I’m really clueless.
But I think about energy coming from the sun, and being absorbed by a plant, which uses that energy to grow bigger. Then we cut that plant and consume it and the energy stored in it is transferred to us. Then that energy is used to do work like walking or lifting an object. But then where does the energy go from there? If I slide a cup across my table, I put some of that energy into overcoming the friction of the cup and the table, but where does the energy go from there? Is it lost?
All of this thought process could be completely wrong. I have no clue. It’s just what I think about during a 12 hour shift doing meaningless manual labor.
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