What is the ontological nature of energy?

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What is energy? Does it have an ontology? Or is it merely a tool we use to describe the output of dynamic matter.

Do any good philosophers question the nature of energy?
 
I would have thought, on immediate reaction, that energy is just one manifestation of creation. Cannot energy be just at home ‘at rest’ and it is during motion? I mean when one speaks of splitting the atom etc.
 
In physics, energy is simply the capacity to do work, the ability to make something happen. It has many forms, which are grouped into potential energy (as in fuel) and kinetic (as in motion). There’s a strong principle that it can never be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. The total energy of the universe (in matter, gravity, heat, space and so on) must then be constant. This value isn’t known but for various reasons is most likely to be exactly zero, in other words if everything was brought together it would all cancel out. Reverse that and you’ll see this principle (First Law of Thermodynamics) does not deny God - Creation is God splitting everything out of nothing as it were.
 
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What is energy? Does it have an ontology? Or is it merely a tool we use to describe the output of dynamic matter.

Do any good philosophers question the nature of energy?
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E=MC2

E(is)M(quantity)C2

E(is)M-](quantity)C2/-] (quantity is metaphysically meaningless to being.)

E(is)M

It seems to be an entirely meaningless distinction ontologically.
 
inocente said:
There’s a strong principle that it can never be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another.
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…by physical means, of course. However, any assertion that creation of energy by a transcendent being is impossible because of this principle, is just assertion.
 
paduard said:
I would have thought, on immediate reaction, that energy is just one manifestation of creation. Cannot energy be just at home ‘at rest’ and it is during motion? I mean when one speaks of splitting the atom etc.
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Energy and matter are manifestations of the same underlying “thing”, that is precisely what e=mc[sup]2[/sup] means. The rest mass of the three quarks that form a proton only contribute about 1% to the total mass of that proton, the majority of its mass is contributed by the enormous energy associated with their own movement inside the proton, as well as the movement of the massless particles that are exchanged between them. As for when energy was created?

Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
 
The most fundamental and powerful form of energy is spiritual energy which is personal, conscious, directive and creative. Physical energy is the only known product of spiritual energy but there may well be others of which we have no inkling.
 
Teresita99 said:
Energy and matter are manifestations of the same underlying “thing”, that is precisely what e=mc[sup]2[/sup] means. The rest mass of the three quarks that form a proton only contribute about 1% to the total mass of that proton, the majority of its mass is contributed by the enormous energy associated with their own movement inside the proton, as well as the movement of the massless particles that are exchanged between them. As for when energy was created?

Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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What is massless energy?
 
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