After all, we and everything in our world are made up of atoms which are made up of particles which have energy. Pure energy is not physical but some particles are-the Higgs Boson. I find it very interesting to study the supernatural in terms of the science of quantum mechanics.
Something that I had overlooked in my previous reply. This “Pure energy” that you wrote.
I do see you have heard of Higgs Boson, and you are most likely aware of the conservation of energy and conservation of mass.
That the individual conservations, both indicated mass and energy, cannot be created, nor destroyed, BUT it can transformed, converted into something, including to each other, eg mass can convert into energy, and likewise, energy can convert into mass.
This conservation about mass and energy being transferable is one of the defining principle about understanding matter.
They are all real and natural, and they are understood in physics.
The conservation of both mass and energy, are understood as they are related to each other, and how they are related to matters (matters as in objects, atoms, particles). In this scenario,
- energy is define a property of mass (and of matter) that has potential to “work”, hence “potential energy”,
- and the matter is doing something, eg moving, then energy is define as a property of mass (and of matter) that can do “work”, hence physicists called this “kinetic energy”.
Energy, whether it be potential or kinetic, is calculated as work, with the outcome giving number in “Joules”. The equation of energy required mass of that matter.
So in summary, energy, like mass, is a property of matter.
That much you should have learned in basic high school physics.
I left out a third point about energy (#3) in my points about kinetic and potential energies, that matter doing some work give out another form of energy, where mass and energy will cause matter to radiate a third form of energy - “heat”.
Heat can actually be observed using some form of infrared scanning devices.
Again, (regarding to heat) this is all basic physics you would have learned in high school.
But another thing you should have learned in high school physics, that matters at work aren’t the only things that can produce energy.
Fields can induce force, therefore it can do work too, hence work = energy.
And so can electromagnetism (EM), where EM would propagate waves, therefore it has energy. You would and should know that EM waves include radio waves, visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, microwave, gamma waves.
Einstein postulated light has a dual property of being both wave and particle, hence physicists frequently referred to light as “photon”.
So if you studied any physics, beyond what was taught in high school, you would have learned about quantum physics and particle physics, and that photon is one of particles in the Standard Model of elementary particles.
Einstein, expanded the classical physics on matters, fields and waves, with his scientific theory - Special Relativity.
Special Relativity, like his General Relativity, covered many different areas of modern physics, including spacetime (which is very important if you were studying modern astronomy, astrophysics and physical cosmology), but he brought the mass and energy into the 20th century, which you would know it as the Mass-Energy Equivalence equation:
E = m c^2
Where c is the speed of light constant. This equation highlighted the classical physics of energy, the important interrelationship between mass and energy.
And if you approach modern physics in the other direction - as opposed to Relativity - then you would be looking at energy from the perspectives of Quantum Physics and Particle Physics.
Now I still very new to Quantum Mechanics, so I am still learning.
When I was at universities, they didn’t teach me Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics, because they weren’t relevant to the courses I took in the mid-1980s (civil engineering) and mid- to late 90s (computer science). I have been reading up these new areas of physics, in the last 10 or more years, because I am simply curious.
Anyway, my points in all this, energy is a natural phenomena, and only in the supernatural, which would include science fiction and in the belief of theistic or spiritual religions, is the existence of “pure energy”.
Pure energy is a fiction and a myth. Other than religion, spirituality and sci-fi, pure energy doesn’t exist in the real world.
