Destiny

What is Energy? This question is as easy or as difficult to answer as “what is money?”.

Is money the currency note you hold in your hand? But then you give it in bank and all u have is a number……yet u can swipe a card or write a cheque and get back your money. Thus we can say money is not coin or note but a concept which is denoted in many formats from currency note (which is basically a IOU note by the government) , coin , bank saving etc.

 Similarly energy is a concept Just like your money can be in multiple currencies $, euro, yuan or rouble same way energy can be in various formats heat, light, electrical, magnetic etc and you can convert energy from one format to other quite easily But we still have not come to it. What is energy. Imagine that you have a few billion dollars in your account but are stranded alone in a remote island. There are no shops there. Is your money of any use?

Now lets assume you are rescued by a local tribe which is highly advanced and has a currency called meta. One meta as per them is a million dollars and it cost 1 meta to have a proper lunch!! Overnight from being ultra rich you have become quite poor. What does this tell? Money has not much intrinsic value but it has an ability to cause transactions and these transactions have value. Similarly Energy is the ability to cause events and these events have value. How much energy and what type of energy is needed to cause which event varies

Now suppose in the land of Meta you find a telephone. You call your banker and ask him to ship you $1million worth of food. Once your food arrives you open a restaurant and sell food use the meta earned to buy dollars. You may call it trading, but in energy terms it is just conversion of energy into different formats. You are just converting dollars to meta. The real thing is food. The currency is just the virtual promise.

 Lets say you now spend 2 years doubling your cash to 15-20billion dollars and return to real world to find that USA had a double dip recession. Now 1 Yuan is 1 million $ and 1 euro is 0.5million $. Who decides whether 1$ is 1yuan, 10 Yuan or 100 yuan? Does the govt alone decide it or is it a combination of market variable, consumer confidence, Govt policies and a host of other factors? Else the USA president would love to have printed $ without worrying about inflation or trade deficits Similarly conversion from one type of energy to another is governed by a set of environmental rules and all other energy in the environment influence it. Thus we can say that energy is the ability to cause events or transactions in the real world just like money is the enabler to cause transactions and events in virtual world

Now why did I use real and virtual? Well, because of two reasons. First, energy is all around us. We need not “own” the energy but can channel the energy to cause the events just like plants channel the solar energy to create fruits and flowers. Similarly people in high government post or politicians channel the money from govt or private corporate to get the events done without owning that money. Just like the ability to channel money differs …….Obama could channel none when he was a kid, some before he was the president, a lot now since he is the president and after 2 years it will reduce once he is no longer the president. Similarly a bodies ability to channel energy also differs and depends a lot on the environment Secondly because our brain recognises energy but not money. Hence energy is real and Money is virtual. Our brain needs energy that comes by burning food in our cells. For a hungry man, food is important and not gold.

For life energy is important and not money. Because we humans are not good in understanding the concept of energy and have no natural means to carry transfer and trade energy, we use matter as a substitute of energy………… that was the start of the barter system. Then we found money to substitute for the matter as matter was bulky, difficult to carry and accurately quantify. Thus energy got substituted by matter and matter by money. Thus energy is the original real currency and the so called “govt promissory notes” or money is the virtual currency.

Then is the Egalitarian society without money possible? Definitely In future once humans advance enough to store and transfer energy effectively and without loss, we will replace the countries individual currency by energy units. Considering that all energy comes from sun (and that energy can neither be created nor destroyed), the concept of rich poor will go away. All that will be important is the ability of yours to harness or channel that energy Hence I say energy is real, matter and money are virtual

 Still unable to understand? Just imagine if tomorrow your government defaults on a single bond payment and declares that it has no money to repay its debt. What will happen to your bank balance. Try and meditate if you can. You need food to survive and not gold because your body has the ability to convert food, water, oxygen into energy and feed the brain. We hoard gold because food gets spoilt while gold does not. What if there was a direct energy capsule which could enable you to work for 3 days without needing food or feeling hungry. How much will it sell for. How much would it sell for if there were only 100 such capsules and the factory to produce them can make only 1 capsule a day. Just ponder about it………….as they say food for thought