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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So the way understand it, it is simply a property of matter that we have discovered. Other measurements like length, mass, volume, etc., make intuitive sense to us because we can directly observe them. We can measure the length of the object by stacking several smaller objects with the same length for example (where these smaller objects function as the units). But measuring energy is not so obvious, and it took numerous experiments to figure out that a value like that “exists”, namely that it makes sense to use it
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