I think the analogy can work, but needs to be carefully applied. This wasn't an analogy taught in my EE program, but one that is common in TV programming and pr

I think the analogy can work, but needs to be carefully applied. This wasn't an analogy taught in my EE program, but one that is common in TV programming and provided by high school science teachers whom may not themselves understand the nuance so many came into the program with this understanding in place. Ultimately though, this concept was the breaking point for my EE class; It's when half the class dropped out to other majors. Not that I blame the analogy entirely for this, I think in general this is the point at which a lot of people lose connection with deeper sciences. It's the point where analogies to the physical world (matter) break down because we're now fundamentally talking about energy, which doesn't obey the rules all humans are accustom to. The world where we can't see it or relate it to our daily experiences but only talk about it through mathematics.