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Technically, energy isn’t made of anything. It’s not a substance or a thing you can hold—it’s a property or quality of something. In other words, energy describes how things behave and interact. It’s how we measure changes in the physical world: motion, heat, electricity, light, etc.

At the most fundamental level, the universe is made of particles and fields. These particles (like electrons or photons) behave in strange, unpredictable ways, and energy is what these particles carry, transfer, or release when they interact. Think of energy as the ability to make something happen—it flows between particles and changes how they behave.

Energy and Quantum Particles

In the quantum world, everything is either a particle or a wave—or sometimes both at the same time. Photons (light particles) are examples of pure energy particles, meaning they don’t have mass. But even particles with mass—like electrons or protons—are just tiny blips of vibrating energy. This is where Einstein’s equation, E = mc², comes in: it tells us that mass and energy are two sides of the same coin.

So, when we say “everything is energy,” we mean that all particles, even the ones that make up your body, are just forms of vibrating energy fields. Your atoms are full of tiny particles buzzing with energy—and those particles are constantly interacting and exchanging energy with the world around them.

Energy Fields and the Universe

At the deepest level, scientists think the universe is filled with energy fields, like the electromagnetic field that creates light or the Higgs field that gives particles mass. Energy itself isn’t made of something smaller—it’s just a fundamental feature of the universe, always present and always moving between fields and particles.

Why It’s So Hard to Pin Down

The reason energy is so tricky to explain is that it doesn’t exist by itself—it’s always tied to something else, like motion, heat, or light. It’s a bit like asking what “speed” is made of—speed isn’t an object, it’s a way to describe how fast something moves. Similarly, energy is how we describe the potential for things to change or move. It’s an abstract concept, but one that shapes everything we experience.

Why It’s Trippy:

Here’s the wild part: everything in the universe is just energy vibrating at different frequencies. Your thoughts are energy, your body is energy, and even the air you breathe is energy. Since energy can’t be created or destroyed—just transferred or transformed—everything is connected, constantly flowing and shifting.

So, if energy flows through everything, including your thoughts, it makes sense to wonder: What if your thoughts are influencing the energy around you? What if, like quantum particles, your beliefs collapse possibilities into reality? The idea that your inner world could ripple through the universe is mind-blowing—and that’s why this whole concept is so trippy.