An Important Fact about Energy

Physics courses and text books are loaded with information about energy. Many different forms of energy, such as mass energy, kinetic energy, radiant energy, gravitational energy, electrical energy, magnetic energy, nuclear energy, chemical energy, heat energy, and elastic energy are discussed in great detail and mathematical formulas are presented for each. However, those courses and text books often fail to mention a very important underlying fact about energy. That fact is after many decades of thought, experiment, and debate by some of the most intelligent people ever to walk on earth, physicists still have no knowledge of what energy actually is. ©2005 Tigertek, Inc. All rights reserved.

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