Spencer Heath Archive

Item 71

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     Physical energy, when considered as a certain force related to a certain distance but without motion is called potential energy. When considered as a certain force moving and acting through a certain distance each single unit of time, it is called kinetic energy, meaning a rate of energy in action. When a rate of energy in action (kinetic energy) is multiplied by the time during which the action continues, the mere rate of energy-in-action becomes a quantity of energy in action, or, a quantity of action, or simply action.

     Force, motion, time are abstractions of the mind. They cannot be experienced separately or independently. Their three-fold integrations, in whatever proportions, constitute actions or events that are concrete and can be experienced — that cannot only be subjectively conceived but can be also objectively experienced

     Force is always inseparable from particle or mass; hence it may be considered a property of mass. The terms are often interchangeably employed.

     All physical organizations, systems of energy (in action), including structures, are organizations of energy — integrations or compositions, simple or complex, of mass, motion and duration