system
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human
What breaks objects, the force, or the energy?

Given a scenario where i have a ceramic tile and a rock, when i place the rock onto the tile it doesn't break, but when i drop the rock from a height it does, but in the scenario the force(weight) doesn't change, the only thing that does is its height and therefore its gravitational potential energy.
gpt
Your questions' premise is not right:

>but in the scenario the force(weight) doesn't change

The gravitational force (manifested as weight) doesn't change, but the contact force (caused by the solidity of the tile and rock via electromagnetism) which only lasts a fraction of a second while the tile is stopping the rock is enormous.

Energy and force are deeply related ideas so asking which one is more important here is a bit like asking which is more important for a working car: The wheels or the engine?