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Are there energies that can't be quantified?

Are there energies that can't be quantified?

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A. Samuel

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A. Samuel, Content Manager, Masters in Marketing and accounting, Florida

Answered Feb 04, 2021

One thing that you should know about energy is that they come in many forms. These different forms can make them confusing for a lot of people. They do not know if there are some forms of energy that cannot be measured or quantified. While most types of energy can be measured because there are various formulas to create accurate answers, there are also some that cannot be explained yet.

Quantifying energy has already come a long way from before. The formulas that are created come from researching and testing. Yet, something like dark energy cannot be measured yet. There is not enough information available about it to create the right formula to quantify it.

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J. Pollock

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J. Pollock, Science Professor, Los Angeles

Answered Feb 01, 2021


The correct answer to this question is Yes. There are many energies that are not able to be quantified. One of those is the energy that creates dark matter. This energy is not able to be measured because there is simply not many details given on this energy to know how to measure it.

Another energy that is not able to be measured is internal energy. This is a type of energy that is used in the branch of physical science called thermodynamics. This type of energy is not able to be measured because one is not able to know the values of vibrational, translational, and rotational energies all at once, which would be required to measure internal energy.

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F. Daniel

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F. Daniel, Content Optimization Executive, Diploma in Journalism, California

Answered Jan 20, 2021

There are a lot of energies that are normally quantified or measured depending on what they are. For example, if you would like to measure the amount of energy that has been used in order to get from one place to another, this is possible. There are different formulas that are used to figure out the measurements of these energies.

There are some types of energy that may not be considered as quantifiable. For example, the type of energy that is being projected by dark matter that is said to be available in space cannot be measured at this time. There may not be enough details available in order to know how to measure this.

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M. Klose

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M. Klose, Content Writer, Oakland

Answered Oct 31, 2018

It has often been said that it will be hard to measure nothingness. This can go on and on and it will have no end. This is also the same for some of the energies that are available. There are some types of energy that can be measured through their speed and power but dark energy will be hard to measure because it can somewhat signify nothingness.

There are already some people who have speculated about dark energy in the past but it was only a few decades ago when this was finalized. People started to learn of its existence and why it is vital in the world that we live in right now.

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C. Reyes

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Answered May 15, 2018

Internal energy is a term that is commonly used in thermodynamics, which is the branch of physical science that deals with the relationships between heat and other forms of energy. The term internal energy describes all the energy contained within the particles that make up a system, for example all the “energies of all the atoms, their electrons, and the components of their nuclei.”

It has been said that the exact value of the internal energy of a system cannot be measured because it is the “sum of translational, rotational and vibrational energies. And it is impossible to measure the exact values of all of these at the same time.”

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