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Cannot understand "energy"
What is "energy"? I know no one can actually answer this question, but still i'll like to know how you people think about it. What I think of energy is like its some "stuff" which makes up everything in the universe, some "stuff" which seems to be created out of nothing. Why is the concept of energy so abstract?
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What made human beings think about some quantity, some "stuff" which remains constant for an isolated system. A brief history of the word 'energy' will be appreciated.
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And what made us to give energy,such an abstract thing the dimensions of mass*velocity^2 or F.d
we solve inclined planes, strings and pulleys, motion of this or that particle,etc. We apply conservation of energy without knowing properly what it is, so are we just following a human made model of the world which explains some phenomena. Don't you think "Physics" itself is a big human made model of the world and we can explain the same phenomena but it in a different way.
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I'll like to hear some philosophical discussions too
*note- my level of education is just upto introductory physics, I'm just 17yo.
Thank you
What is "energy"? I know no one can actually answer this question, but still i'll like to know how you people think about it. What I think of energy is like its some "stuff" which makes up everything in the universe, some "stuff" which seems to be created out of nothing. Why is the concept of energy so abstract?
.
What made human beings think about some quantity, some "stuff" which remains constant for an isolated system. A brief history of the word 'energy' will be appreciated.
.
And what made us to give energy,such an abstract thing the dimensions of mass*velocity^2 or F.d
we solve inclined planes, strings and pulleys, motion of this or that particle,etc. We apply conservation of energy without knowing properly what it is, so are we just following a human made model of the world which explains some phenomena. Don't you think "Physics" itself is a big human made model of the world and we can explain the same phenomena but it in a different way.
.
I'll like to hear some philosophical discussions too
*note- my level of education is just upto introductory physics, I'm just 17yo.
Thank you