Energy is a convenient, multi-purpose word that the mathematicians have invented to describe everything and explain
    nothing. Energy is a wild card in a poker game. It can be anything you want; you can substitute it for any word or concept.
    If you are ever in a bind, just say the magical word energy and all problems will go away. No one will dare to challenge you
    because no one has the slightest clue what energy is or what this word means. Whenever you see the word energy in a
    scientific forum or article, you instantly know that the author has no idea what he is talking about.

    Energy is a noun, a verb, and an adverb all in one. A mathematician takes advantage of all of these grammatical aspects
    during his dissertation. Of course, his peers will not object. They were conditioned in school to use the word energy for
    everything too.

    a.        Energy, the noun

    The mathematicians routinely use the word energy as a physical object.  They conserve, convert, and transfer energy. The
    mathematicians are asking you to visualize a movie of a shape occupying different locations.

    “ it is important to remember that by definition of energy the transfer of energy between
       the 'system' and adjacent regions is work.” [1]

    [We transfer the verb work?]

    “ In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by a force. ” [2]

    By means of a force, I transfer energy to your right hand. Now open your hand. What do you have? So far it appears you
    have nothing. Not a single crucial word of this sentence -- work, energy, force -- is a noun for the purposes of science.  The
    mathematicians make movies with concepts. There is absolutely nothing on the screen for you to see. 99% of the problem
    with Mathematical Physics is semantics.

    b.         Energy, the verb

    The mathematicians can use the word energy as a verb. He can say that energy is work.

    “ Kinetic energy can be thought of as the energy associated with the motion of an object
       and is equivalent to work.  An example of kinetic energy is a moving hammer doing work
       on a nail.  The hammer does work on the nail by driving it into the wall.” [3]

    c.        Energy, the adverb

    And the mathematician can treat energy as an adverb, specifically as capacity or the ability., specifically as a quantifiable,
    relational concept.

    “ Energy is the capacity for doing work. You must have energy to accomplish work - it is
       like the "currency" for performing work. To do 100 joules of work, you must expend 100
       joules of energy.” [4]

    “ energy (from the Greek ενεργός, energos, 'active, working') is a scalar physical quantity,
       that is used to describe a conserved property of objects” [5]

    Of course, if energy is simultaneously a noun, a verb, and an adverb, we can readily understand why it will be such a useful
    concept to a mathematician. The mathematician can explain anything with it. Why did the pot boil? The fire transferred
    energy. Why are you tired? I ran out of energy. Why does light travel so fast? Because it is just energy. Why does the electron
    do its famous quantum jump? Because it falls to and rises from an energy level. So what have we learned?

    Whenever a mathematician puts an article in front of words such as energy, mass, field or force, -- the energy, a mass, those
    forces, that field –  he is treating these words as the subject of a sentence. This is unacceptable in science. In science, concepts
    cannot be the subject of a sentence. Only physical objects may be followed by a verb and perform an action: the tree fell, a rock
    rolled, an eagle flew. We cannot make statements such as “the force pushed a mass out the window” in science.  What the
    mathematician has really done is describe something he doesn’t understand with an undefined word. He is introducing ordinary
    speech in a scientific context.

    The mathematicians use the word energy to explain every phenomenon of nature, yet they have no idea what they are talking
    about:

    “ It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy
       is.” [6]

    You cannot draw a picture of energy. Therefore, energy is not a physical object. Energy is a vague, undefined concept:

    “ The concept of energy and its transformations is extremely useful in explaining and
       predicting most natural phenomena.” [7]

    [Yeah! I bet it is! That's exactly the problem!]

    In Science, it is irrational to say that you converted justice into love or that you transferred beauty onto the statue. Likewise,
    it is irrational to say that you converted energy into mass or that you transferred energy to the pot. The word energy invariably
    leads to a Ptolemaic explanation. It cannot and should not be used in Science. We don't need this word to explain any
    phenomenon of nature. The next time you sit down to write checks, ask your provider to show you this stuff called energy
    that he is billing you for.
Adapted for the Internet from:

Why God Doesn't Exist
Energy is that stuff you
pay for but never get
Glowing Bill
...enveloped by an energy field
after putting a hard day's work at the nuke plant


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