What Is Energy?
World's Most Asked Questions: What Is Energy? As you probably know by now, we’ve been working with Google and YouTube to answer ten of the most popular science questions asked on the internet. And I gotta hand it to you, because there are few questions that are as confounding and complex and fascinating and inspiring, as this one the collective consciousness has spewed last: What is energy? Energy is everything. It’s everywhere. It’s one of the true constants of the universe, because as long as there’s been a universe, there’s been energy. And while it comes in lots of different forms that can seem different to us, they all amount to the same thing: Energy is the ability to do work. And work is just the act of displacing something by applying force. So, say you stomp on a stomp rocket. The force of your foot hitting the pedal is turned into the force of air leaving the cannon – sending your rocket sailing. Or maybe you're enjoying a nice patty melt-- the energy ...
