Nope. It's a human concept.
In
physics,
energy is the
quantitative property that must be
transferred to an
object in order to perform
work on, or to
heat, the object.
[note 1] Energy is a
conserved quantity; the law of
conservation of energy states that energy can be
converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The
SI unit of energy is the
joule, which is the energy transferred to an object by the
work of moving it a distance of 1
metre against a
force of 1
newton.
Common forms of energy include the
kinetic energy of a moving object, the
potential energy stored by an object's position in a force
field (
gravitational,
electric or
magnetic), the
elastic energy stored by stretching solid objects, the
chemical energy released when a fuel
burns, the
radiant energy carried by light, and the
thermal energy due to an object's
temperature.
Mass and energy are closely related. Due to
mass–energy equivalence, any object that has mass when stationary (called
rest mass) also has an equivalent amount of energy whose form is called
rest energy, and any additional energy (of any form) acquired by the object above that rest energy will increase the object's total mass just as it increases its total energy. For example, after heating an object, its increase in energy could be measured as a small increase in mass, with a sensitive enough
scale.
Living organisms require energy to stay alive, such as the
energy humans get from food. Human civilization requires energy to function, which it gets from
energy resources such as
fossil fuels,
nuclear fuel, or
renewable energy. The processes of Earth's
climate and
ecosystem are driven by the radiant energy Earth receives from the sun and the
geothermal energy contained within the earth.