ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Conservative vector field

A conservative vector field is like a big imaginary flow of energy. It's like if you imagine a river, the water always flows in the same direction and it never gets lost. A conservative vector field is like that, except instead of a river it's a field of invisible energy, and the force of the energy always goes the same way. The energy moves the same way, so it never gets lost.