Energy
  
  You have no doubt have heard the saying "all matter is pure energy." A hundred years ago, such a concept would have been a radical unsubstantiated claim. But thanks to pioneering physics, we now think that this theory is true. Certainly, fantastic discoveries such as E=Mc 2 seem to back up these claims.  
  More recently, the word energy is increasingly being used by new age healers and promoters in their description of what various techniques, beliefs, cures etc unleash or align.  
6.10.1 Contemporary science's view of what is energy  
  The word "energy" is derived from the Greek word energeia meaning vigour of expression and activity. The word was actually created by Aristotle from the Greek words en (in) + ergon (work). The meaning "vigour or intensity of action" was introduced into the English language in the early 19th Century by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The scientific meanings attached to energy have gradually emerged over the past 120 to 150 years.  
  In contemporary science, the word energy is almost always used in terms of describing work done. Work is done whenever a force causes movement of an object from one place to another, or from one structure state to another. Energy is defined as the capacity for doing work.  
  Kinetic and potential energy  
  Science then makes a distinction between a stationary object and an object in motion. A stationary object is said to have potential energy, stored energy, by virtue of what it is made of, where it is and what is around it. Once the object is in motion, it is said to have kinetic energy.  
  It is a fundamental belief within the model of energy by science that there is a conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy for all things to move.  
  Types of energies identified by science  
  Contemporary science has been successful in classifying a range of forms of energy- all with different behavioral traits. These include mechanical energy, electrical energy, nuclear energy, heat energy, radiant energy, kinetic energy and chemical energy.  
  Interchangeability of energies claimed by science  
  Another fundamental belief of the contemporary scientific model of energy is that energy is interchangeable. In other words, given the right equipment, any one form of energy can be changed into any other form of energy. Science states with absolute confidence that this can happen in many cases relatively easily, while admitting at the same time that conversions of energy can sometime be much harder.  
  The conservation of energy and entropy  
  Another fundamental belief of the fundamental contemporary science model of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed- it can only be changed from one of its forms into another. Although it cannot be destroyed, energy can (and is) wasted, usually in the form of heat. We are told that Heat energy "normally" takes place whenever an energy exchange takes place.  
  When an object loses energy to another object, this is defined as entropy. For example, a hand held flashlight is said to produce radiant energy from the bulb. At the same time, the battery and the bulb get hot. This energy we are told often cannot be used and so is wasted. Again, we are told that the wasted heat produced on Earth gradually dissipates through the atmosphere into space.  
  The laws of the conservation of energy are normally called the Four Laws of Thermodynamics and form a crucial pillar of almost all contemporary scientific models. The four laws are:  
(0) No heat will flow between any two bodies that are at the same temperature (regardless of what the bodies are made of).  
(1) Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. So a body can gain or lose heat (or any other form of energy) only by taking it from or passing it to its environment (or to another body).  
(2) Heat will not pass spontaneously from a cold body to a hotter one.  
(3) It is impossible to cool a body right down to the temperature of absolute zero (-273.16C), the lowest possible temperature in the Universe, because to do so would require the presence of a still colder body.  
  A classic example used to explain the laws in use is the "hot water bottle": A hot water bottle, filled with boiling water and placed in a cold bed, passes heat to the bed, losing its own heat in the process.  
  But once bottle and bed are at the same lukewarm temperature, no more useful work can be extracted from the bottle. This dissipated heat, we are told, cannot be recaptured.  
  Because science has found this model so useful, they have a strong belief that this model also applies to the rest of the Universe as a whole. Therefore, every scientist , every person that has been to school and taught the Laws of Thermodynamics as fact, then assumes the logol implication that the energy contained within the Universe will ultimately dissipate through space. This stage of maximum and Universal entropy is known as the 'heat death' of the Universe.  
  This is also why, it is almost impossible to find the existence of any coherent scientific argument that does not propose the eventual death of the Universe as a whole.  
6.10.2 The contemporary scientific understanding of energy is one of the most sacred areas of science  
  Even though the classification and grouping of energies and the Laws of Thermodynamics, are relatively recent in terms of human history (mostly over the past one hundred years), science holds these views so strongly that any alternative theory on energy would be immediately ridiculed by most.  
  This is in spite of the model of energy by contemporary science just being that-a model! Yet it has been so widely used and taught as an absolute, that even to you the reader, any alternate explanation on energy may be viewed as just plain crackpot.  
  We highlight this stranglehold of certain scientific models as absolute truths over humanity, as it massively affects our ability to achieve a greater understanding of purpose and symmetry. For instance, let us investigate what energy is suppose to be made of, to prove the point that many of our current scientific models require serious review.  
6.10.3 What is energy supposed to be made of?  
  You may be surprised to learn that there is no coherent explanation that unifies what each Energy is made of, even though science defines energy as a feature of each and every object and "something" that is transferred.  
  Obviously, something has to be a "thing". For example, what is heat energy made of? We are told that heat is a result of the vibration and motion of particles in form. Fine, so how does this vibration and motion get transferred to other particles? One argument is that it doesn't, while another argument says that heat is transferred like waves, but we don't know what these waves are made of.  
  OK, what about heat converting to nuclear energy? All energies are suppose to be interchangeable right? We are now told that nuclear energy is the energy stored within atoms and that when we split atoms this energy is released, a substantial amount by way of heat.  
  Fine, that answer explains the process of how nuclear energy is created, but what about the question of how nuclear energy is converted into heat energy? Again, the answers are either confusingly vague or buried under so many formulas that most people would just shrug their shoulders and say "Okay". The simple answer is that there are no simple answers on the conversion of nuclear energy to heat energy.  
  What a mess! For such an immutable set of laws, the explanations of what energy is suppose to be made of and how it is suppose to happen are inadequate as the basis for creating a "unified" theory.  
     
 
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