energy (EN-uhr-jee) noun

   1. The capacity for work or vigorous activity; vigor; power.

   2. Exertion of vigor or power. Vitality and intensity of expression.

   3. Usable heat or power. A source of usable power, such as petroleum
      or coal.

   4. The capacity of a physical system to do work.

[French energie, from Late Latin energia, from Greek energeia, from energos,
active : en-, in, at + ergon, work.]

Ambigram: http://wordsmith.org/words/energy.gif

ENERGY
        Philosophers search for truth in much the same way that artists
do. They don't really expect to find any definite answers. They mainly want
to provide and investigate more ways of looking at the world. But scientists
differ slightly. Science strives to provide very definite, measurable and
provable truths. In the back of their minds though, scientists understand that
those truths are only temporary, and that they may very well be replaced
someday by another truth. So they're really not so different from artists
and philosophers after all.

        Einstein's Theory of Relativity has been accepted as a scientific
truth. But it has so far not been found to mesh with quantum physics. It
may very well be that the 21st century will modify one or both of those
truths as well. So for the time being, we can look at energy as mass times
the speed of light times the speed of light. From another point of view,
energy is the capability of a body to do work or produce an effect. It's
possible that the second definition will outlast the first.
-John Langdon, http://www.coda.drexel.edu/wordplay

This week's theme: words with ambigrams.

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