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energy is not easy to find things have energy but you can't hold a bushel of energy in your hands you can see what it does but you can't see it directly there are types of energy but the differences between them are manifested only and how they make stuff behave we do know that the total amount of all the different types of energy in the universe is always the same  never chemist two important types of energy are chemical potential energy and kinetic energy potential energy is energy waiting to happen think of a stretched rubber band if you cut it all that potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy which is registered by you as pain stretched rubber band chemical bonds also store energy and when those bonds are broken that potential energy gets converted to other types of energy like heat or light or gets used to me different bonds kinetic energy is the energy of motion the molecules are always moving they're not necessarily going somewhere that they could be but they are rating stretching bending and or spinning take methane which is 4 hydrogens attached to a central carbon as an example drawn on paper it's just a still tetrahedron but in real life it's a jiggling mess the kinetic energy of molecules is exactly the same type of energy as the energy you have when you're moving around except that you can still and molecules can't if you suck the kinetic energy out of a group of molecules they'll move less but they'll never fully stop now in any group of molecules some have more kinetic energy than others and if we calculate the average kinetic energy of the group we'd have a number mathematically related to temperature so the more can kenergy a group of molecules has the higher its temperature and that means that on a hot day the molecules in the air around you are spinning stretching bending and generally shooting around faster than on a cold day  Hot and Cold by the way are relative terms they're always used to compare one thing to something else so I'm that hot summer play the air molecules have more kinetic energy than the molecules in your skin  so when those air molecules crash into you they transfer some of their energy to the in your skin and you feel that as heat on a cold day the air molecules have less kinetic energy than the molecules in your skin so when you crash into those air molecules you actually transfer some of your kinetic energy to them and you feel that as cold you can trace the path of energy around you try it at your next you burn charcoal in the release of that chemical potential energy shows up as extreme heat and light the heat that makes the molecules of your burgers or hotdogs or your vibrate until their own bonds break and new chemical structures are formed too much heat and you haven't charged mess just enough and you have dinner once in your body good molecules in your delicious burchard dinner get broken down and the energy released is used to either keep you alive right now or it's stored for later in different molecules as night falls the hot summer air cools in the flow of energy into you slows then as the air reaches your skin temperature for the briefest of moments the flow stops and then it starts up again in the opposite direction as energy leaves the warmer surface of your skin to return to the universe around you that virgin either created nor destroyed but ever shape-shifting the chameleon Phoenix of our physical world

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