[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 4

[Bernie Simon]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:32 AM, buddha-l-request at mailman.swcp.com wrote:

> Isn't energy the "ultimate stuff of the physical universe" that is  
> "not
> subject to destruction" or creation?

Energy is not a substance. It's a property of physical systems. And  
energy is created and destroyed all the time, or rather, transformed.  
The chemical energy of wood is transformed into the light of fire,  
which is transformed into heat. These are qualitatively different  
things. The quantity of energy in a system is conserved, not energy  
itself.