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goo  ·  3046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you think happens to ideas which people forget?

It is. There isn't really such thing as just "energy," though. It comes in many different forms. Kinetic, potential, nuclear, thermal, ionization, and so many more.

From wikipedia:

    a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms, but cannot be created or destroyed.[1] The "ability of a system to perform work"




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goo  ·  3046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Energy is studied in the physical sciences, as it is a non-living system in our universe. It is a measurable quantity, transferable, and constantly interacts with its environment. Would that not make it a physical thing?

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_refugee_  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Physical is generally accepted to mean "tangible," i.e., something which one is able to touch and feel - over physical as "part of physics."

I agree, it's just - odd for me to see the word "physical" used to mean, more esoterically, "relating to or of physics." I'm sure both meanings are correct, but one is more common.

goo  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huh. I'll have to research it some more - tough concept to wrap my brain around. Thanks for the discussion.

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