Description: A motet for Christmas Day from Selectae quaedam cantiones sacrae, Nuremberg, 1571. Published as the pendant second part of the motet Hodie Christus natus est, this edition is offered as an independent piece.
The universe is made up of matter and energy. Matter â anything that has mass and takes up space â is pretty straightforward and easy to grasp, but energy is a bit more abstract. In physics, energy is the ability to do work, or the ability to move or elicit change in matter.
Since, by  Einstein's mass-equivalence equation e = mc2, mass is energy and  energy is mass, then lightning contains both ene â¦ rgy and matter  (mass).    Alternatively stated, electrical charge is represented by  electrons. Electrons have mass (matter). As such, lightning  contains both energy and matter.