QUOTE(GhostDJR @ Aug 19 2005, 11:22 PM)
Okay a simple question. Everything is made of energy, right? If I'm made of energy and a chair is made of energy. What's stopping me from using my energy to affect the energy of the chair. If I could I would be moving it using telekinesis, which is an obcious duh. So what's the block that's stopping my energy from affecting something elses?
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It sounds like you are referring to energy at the quantum level. Assuming this is the case, then reason you cannot manipulate it is as follows:
Energy at the quantum level is not the freely flowing and forming thing we think of when we think of electricity. The existence of energy (at the quantum level) is defined by the work that it is doing. Thus, when you refer to the energy of, say, a chair, what you are referring to is the energy that forms the bonds between the molecules and atoms that make up the composition of the chair. A lot of people think of quantum energy in terms of the Matrix movies, where everything is just different variations of the same characters. It doesn't work quite that way.
So, having understood that, you must also understand that, at the quantum level, you and the chair are indistinguishable. Were you to fly an atom sized spaceship through the quantum realm, you would be unable to tell when you left the conglomeration of atoms known as 'yourself', entered the conglomeration known as 'air', and went into the conglomeration known as 'chair'. At this level, everything is nothing more than molecules and atoms and the energy in between them, along with a whole lot of empty space. What does this mean? This means that you are no more able to affect the energy of another object than you are able to affect the energy of yourself. A chair cannot decided to become anything other than a chair; there is a specific amount of energy holding together its atomic structure, and unless that energy is overcome by a greater amount of energy, then it will remain as it is. Similarly, a human cannot simply decide to alter the energy within itself either; unless the basic mathematics of addition and subtraction are met, the energy remains where it is.
But, you say, a human has a brain, and a chair does not. True, but you must remember that a brain only exists at the macro level. At the quantum level, there is no brain, no hands, no body, nor air, nor chair. All that exists are molecules, atoms, and the energy between them.
The example you gave can be thought of as comparing yourself to the water in a steak. Since you are 70% water, and the steak is pretty close to that (assuming it is fresh), then you should be able to affect the water within the steak with your water. I hope that this makes it clear that the example you gave is conceptually incorrect. While it is an ancient belief, there is no evidence that any law of similarity exists, and this is why that belief died out back in the middle ages. Back then, it was thought that the similarity between objects imparted a certain connection to them, ergo, a woman who had too much wine prior to giving birth was at risk of having a baby with a wine stain birthmark, or that a coin made of pure gold would purify the poison from a drink (a practice which, while popular among royal taste testers, lost favor among the VIPs themselves).