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I had a shower thought the other day: clearly conservation of energy is just a guideline and not a fundamental law. Otherwise, how could anything exist?
by atwood22 4y ago
I had a shower thought the other day: clearly conservation of energy is just a guideline and not a fundamental law. Otherwise, how could anything exist?
- Victerius 4y agoA former physics professor of mine said that energy was not in fact conserved in the Universe because the expansion of the Universe consumed the energy. The total available mass-energy in the Universe is decreasing over time.
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- ryandvm 4y agoWell... conservation of energy is just a law within our universe. Everything in here is energy, e=mc^2 and all that. But the creation of our universe definitely involved some process that dumped a shit ton of energy into a very small space about 14 billion years ago.
- awb 4y agoOr, a prior universe collapsing in a "big crunch" and then re-exploding back into existence. Or two objects colliding. But those theories just push the moment of creation back farther in time and the question is still relevant where those objects came from.