Energy, Matter & Money
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The nature of
energy
is force and motion… and its value lies in its ability to perform work;
that is, energy
may be harnessed to do work.
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Because energy
is in constant motion, it cannot be easily stored for later use -- unless
it is converted into matter.
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Matter
is nothing more than stored energy…
as
when a tree impounds a year’s worth of sunlight as a new ring of wood substance
added within its bark.
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Matter
can be converted back into energy,
as when logs of firewood are burned to produce heat. Or centuries of decayed
plant matter is transformed into fossil fuel, which powers our cars and
our industries.
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Matter,
in turn, is often stored as money…as
when a cord of firewood is exchanged for gold coins… or paper currency.
This money
may be converted back into matter, of course, when it is exchanged again
for merchandise, commodities or other materials.
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Money
is often stored as information…in
bank records or transaction receipts… which are literally nothing more
than electrical energy, stored in the form of 0’s and 1’s in computer memory
or magnetic media.
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Regardless of
its seeming complexity of form, energy
remains energy
and can never be physically lost… only metaphysically increased through
the principle of synergy (the behavior of a whole system unpredicted by
the behavior of its parts).
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At any given moment
in time, some elements of a given system will be high in energy
and others will be low in energy.
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To maintain equilibrium,
elements engage in the process of transformation or “trading.”
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The forms of energy
most easily traded are called “super-liquid” because they may be
traded instantaneously (at the speed of light). These are: money
(electronic funds); information
(digitized,
electronic information) and energy
itself
(as electricity or light).
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