Falling is falling, energy changes happen during the event

[areleu]

Copy paste from: OpenEnergyPlatform/ontology#2022 (comment)

I currently see something that may be confusing. But it comes from MENO so I think it makes sense to do a cross-issue there. Falling is defined as

Falling is an energy transformation in which gravitational potential energy is transformed into kintetic energy

Intituitively, and I think ontologically, Falling is a negative change of position in relation to the surface (core?) of the earth. And here we are claiming that it is only an energy transformation.

But I think with MENOs model we do not need to do these suspicious claims. Using MENOs energy transformation mereology we can define falling as the process everyone is familiar with, and we can define its part relations to a loss of potential energy and gain of kinetic energy. This way, we are less likely to have future interoperability issues with skydiving ontologies 😉