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Energy is formally defined as the capacity to do work (whilst work is defined as [[Shaped Like Itself|the energy transferred by a force]]).[[hottip:* :The actual formal definition of energy isn't so confusingly circular, but [[Lies to Children|takes a lot more time and effort to explain]]. Energy is not something you can, for example, pick up and put in your pocket.

 

 

You will therefore find in quite a lot of [[Speculative Fiction]], the notion that energy is just another form of matter -- particularly, a sort of warm [[Power Glows|glowy]] kind of matter, whose exact properties can be fine tuned to user specifications, and which can be summoned or banished with a button-press.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* ''[[Star Trek]]'', the original series at least, might as well be the trope namer. The number of times Spock says "[[Pure Energy]]" over the course of the series is only rivaled by the number of times he says "[[Planet of Hats|Near Earth parallel]], captain."

 

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