Energy ... the What ?

Firmness of soul in man is real excellence; Others are trees, their human form a mere pretence.

Energy is mental wealth; those men who are destitute of it are only trees in form of men.[Thirukkural 600]

We are all acquainted with the word "Energy" but believe me nobody knows it all ... Do you ? How about the words from great physicist engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla 

“If you wish to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”  

There has been many attempts made over the years and a lot of work has gone into explaining it but let me take a stab on it and present my point of view here.

Let's travel back in time, right to the origin of time which has been postulated for humanity as the Big Bang ... The point in time wherein the space, energy, time and everything we know came into being. If you google it a bit, it will tell you that this point came from something called initial singularity or at least the theory of General Relativity suggests as such. So you see, what we have is the best possible theory to suggest what could have happened without a definitive proof but here is another food for thought - suppose we knew everything about energy could we tie to space and time and thereby the origin of universe ? Perhaps.

So coming back to the topic at hand ... what's energy ? Energy is simply the state of imbalance of equilibrium; the greater the imbalance realized the greater the energy. Ain't that simple ? Take a pair of tongs they are in equilibrium from our perspective as we pick it up. Hold it by the handle and flick it with your finger [imbalance] and try to relate the above statement. The vibrations that can be visible at the end is the direct resultant of energy you transferred to the tongs via the flick to achieve a direct frequency of the vibrations you can see, hear and feel even on the handle which is trying to keep it steady.

We can ponder over energy and try to understand what is the equilibrium that this universe is trying to arrive to i.e. will there be a point in time wherein we achieve that singularity again ? what is the state of this singularity where the energy exists while being compensated for corresponding mass ? Can we call that singularity the equilibrium state of all energy that exists as we know it ? Can there be a single equation which can define all types of energy that we know in this universe ? I believe before we start learning about energy we should learn about equilibrium and how it relates to the work as we know it.

Coming back to the real work applications and making use of the energy we will be walking through a few blogs on utilizing this naturally existing imbalance to good effects without hurting nature so that would be Renewable Energy, by definition, since most of it can be assumed to be available forever in human years but not on universal scale definitely. Even our sun, the source of solar energy is also aging.