Physicists prefer pretense for convenience, so they don't have to expose their ignorance in trying to explain something which is not understood. They are peddling the bliss of ignorance and calling it laws of nature. The proof that force is one of the forms of energy is in elastic collisions. When the two objects move toward each other, they have kinetic energy, and there us no force involved. As they collide, a force develops between them, as their motion decreases.
Kinetic energy is converted to force.
If force is interconvertible with motion, as Newton's laws indicated, then force is a form of energy. It's unimaginable, because physicists do not know what force is. All they know about force is what it does. Theory indicates that the source of energy is a medium below the level of molecules. There must be at least one, maybe only one, medium at the subatomic level, because electromagnetic waves require such a medium.