Energy is frequently talked about as if it were a tangible substance, a fluid flowing through systems. This is misleading. Energy is a relational measure of potential for change between states, not a thing in itself. Imagining it as a substance encourages substance-based metaphysics, where the universe is a reservoir of “stuff” rather than a field of relational possibilities. Energy is a bookkeeping device for describing constraints, transformations, and potential actualisations — not a particle, fluid, or commodity.
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