potential_energy stork daddy increases and decreases inversely to kinetic energy in a system. or does it? 031121 ... ClairE The first concept I was introduced to that I was immediately disgusted with. I was in fourth grade. An eight_year_old sitting fuming, hooking wires to batteries and filling out worksheets. There's just got to be a better way to explain it. 031126 ... x potential energy is a theoretical concept, which by definition is equal and opposite to kinetic energy. 031126 ... stork daddy true. but what of the system? what of it as a theoretical concept? 031201 ... Lemon_Soda Theory just means not enough people agree with you. 031201 ... zeke i remember deciding that cold was not a force unto itself but rather negative heat or rather a localized ambient heat gradient. i was 9 and was thinking through many of my asumptions. it was in this context that i first really thought about a concept akin to potential energy. thinking about the transfer of energy in a dynamic gradient system forced me to think about where energy is at any given time and how it moves. potential energy seems to me to act in a curve which never actually reaches absolute zero or absolute 100. singularities (in real space time) don't exist. 031211 ... () (energy potential) 050206 what's it to you? who go blather from