Energy, Matter & Money

Universe IS energy.

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.

Because energy is in constant motion, it cannot be easily stored for later use -- unless it is converted into matter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

At any given moment in time, some elements of a given system will be high in energy and others will be low in energy.

To maintain equilibrium, elements engage in the process of transformation or “trading.”

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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