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Re: convert light into energy



At 11:49 AM -0700 2/2/00, Shawn Knudsen wrote:
Leigh Palmer wrote:

> While what Jim says is both true and important, many teachers refuse
> to appreciate it. Slow down and think, folks! Energy is not a thing;
> it is not real. It is just a number that we calculate by canon. It
> has utility, indeed, but it has neither corporality nor reality, and
> as such it cannot be expressed with purity either.
>

Help me here. In the same context, power is not a thing neither?

No, we just pay $$$$ for energy. It isn't 'real'.

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