Eli5: what exactly is energy?

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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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Energy isn’t really a tangible “thing” at all. It’s essentially a measurement of a thing’s ability to do work. You can think of it as “measurable capacity to do work”.

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