Fred,
Well, I would agree that it is very prosaic, such as the energy drives and manifests, while form defines and directs, whether it is waves, flowers, people, or societies. My point is the prosaic is overlooked.
Structures do appear and disappear. It’s a cycle of positive, then negative feedback, building up and breaking down, pretty much everything. I guess my background is more biological, than mechanical.
What we might think of as “solid ground” has very much energy vibrating and giving it more volume, otherwise a more mass state, like a neutron star, would be beyond our physical adaptation. It is that tension between the structure pulling in and the energy pushing out, that creates this world we experience.
The universe is not an “entity,” but a network. Galaxies are the primary nodes in this network. They are evident convective cycles of energy radiating out, as mass/form gravitates in.
Regards,
John