A Scientific Discussion

It isn't destroyed, it's just changed into a different state. I believe that something completely converted to pure energy becomes part of the cosmos, from whence it came, as in a matter/antimatter reaction. Similarly I consider matter to have condensed from a background energy that pervades the universe.

Converting water to a solid or a gas isn't the same, because you still have something made of atoms that form molecules. They're just either closer together or further apart.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It's just my opinion. For all practical purposes it can be destroyed, since you can't use or handle pure energy like you can matter. Fundamentally though, matter (which I consider "frozen" energy because unless you liberate the rest-energy of every particle then there's always "something" there) to me cannot be destroyed. Perhaps that's more of a philosophical view.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I found this quite interesting with regards to the interchangeability of energy and matter:
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/cla...nd_energy.html

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I like to see things in simple terms; matter distorts space-time. And I have in my head that rubber-sheet model of space, with bodies flying past each other and having their trajectories deflected by the distortion masses cause. It's neat.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?