In dealing with experiments at the quantum level, preparation and measurement are key to obtaining coherent results. The effect of relativity on particles is greater than what we perceive in the observed world, given the "relative" implication when things near the speed of light. It's basically as if each object has its own clock and will perceive the occurrence of events differently. Also, restrictions resulting from the uncertainty principle will constrain the properties that can be measured.
Tolerances are so fine that the object of observation is viewed as an intermediate system connecting the processes of preparation and measurement. Between the two...
"the solid material objects of classical physics dissolve into wave-like patterns of probabilities, and these patterns, ultimately, do not represent probabilities of things, but rather probabilities of interconnections."
Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Boston: Shambhala, 2000), p. 68
Thus energy is non-descript, short of its interrelation with others.
"Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception."
- Tao Te Ching
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