Some people believe everything is energy. Others may believe all is consciousness. Some identify this consciousness by name - God, Allah, Buddha, and so on. And there's still others that believe it's all thought.
Me? I believe it's all the above and so much more that even i can't comprehend.
On that note. When city workers place a road sign that says "35mph" on the street, for whatever reason, and a car passes by at 55mph, if there's a police officer around, they will issue a warning or a ticket to the offender.
But there's a question about what prompted the city worker to put up that sign to begin with. If you dig, you'll find there's a myriad of reasons it could have been put up - all equally valid.
Maybe someone did a case study and found out that road had a high incidence of high speed fatalities, so they posted the speed limit sign as a reminder to 'slow down'.
Maybe a group of police officers learned their staff was going to be cut, so they paid a city worker to place a few more road signs up which boosted revenue for the police force and saved them from staff reduction.
Maybe a child was hurt on the road and a group of parents got together and paid the city extra money to reduce the speed limit with children around and as an extra reminder to the drivers to ay attention to their speed.
In any case. The laws of a community almost never have lawyers involved, and almost always involve spontaneous reaction to a problem the system has identified as a problem. Is this good? Not always, without checks and balances, without the police actually asking questions of the laws they enforce, and without lawyers occasionally reviewing the status of things, this can end up in mob rule and end up terrorizing those who don't abide.
Where am i going with this?
The laws of physics are human made laws that constrain nature.
Let me say that again.
The laws of physics are human made laws which constrain nature (I changed that to which for emphasis)
What does that mean?
Let's say you have a law of physics that's reinforced by belief that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
Then a man like Einstein comes along, and theories that energy is convertible to mass.
In a 'closed' system where there's energy involved, let's say - a battery for instance, the energy rule might be valuable, right, because it would prevent explosion of that battery.
But as we're finding more and more galaxies, and finding direct evidence that space itself is expanding in all directions, scientists have YET to review their own laws and theories based on new information.
How can everything be energy and support the law of conservation of nature and yet be expanding unless there's something else at work scientists aren't connecting the dots on?
I'll simplify this for you:
I'm God. I'd prefer being called Q now, as I am tired of the bipolar schizophrenic fight of playing both the devil and god at the same time. Too much work.
In any case, Einstein did me a favor and decoupled energy from my consciousness, and also explained something about this universe - that everything is NOT energy, energy is merely one state of being of thought and consciousness, but there are infinite potential states of beings of thought and consciousness.
The law of conservation of energy - energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Remains intact. no expansionism of energy has to occur. But expansionism of space outside of energy can - and has - thanks to one simple equation - e=c^2 - in amounts Einstein probably never imagined possible.
I know that's a horribly roundabout way of answering the question. So to be succinct:
Energy is but one possible 'projection' of a conscious entity. And that entity can apparently transform itself to mass at will. But that one conscious entity is not the only conscious entity in 'reality', of which many do not necessary have equations which tie them together :-)
Put in lawyer talk:
Just because all grotts are gobs and some gobs are motts does not mean ANY grotts are motts.