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Well, thank you all for your responses. I definitely will look further into Noether's theorem. This has already given me some insight into what and how I need to understand it. By the way, I understand that the GPE is stored in the system and not the object. I suppose my brain associates it with...

First off, I'd like to thank you both for your answers. Second, I do have a philosophical problem with the way energy's defined. Allow me to tell you why: #1: As I said above, and explained, its definition is recursive. #2: I cannot extract a meaning of "energy" from its units alone. You may say...

I've looked at a couple of the suggested previous discussions. While the questions are similar, if not the same in essence, I have not found a good answer. Allow me to first give you some background as to what I am asking. I have pondered this question day and night; it has often distracted me...

In advance, nice to meet you all... most likely. While I don't yet have an avatar and my name here gives no physical relation to who I am, though I'm sure it tells a psychological story, I look forward to interacting with this community. See y'all on the forums. Bye bye now.