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doesn't the 'big bang' violate this completely? i feel any fundamental theory must violate the conservation of mass as we perceive it in order to explain exist
by jheriko 13y ago
doesn't the 'big bang' violate this completely?
i feel any fundamental theory must violate the conservation of mass as we perceive it in order to explain existance (not to say that it isn't a very good approximation with a true underlying conservation law)
- mistercow 13y agoAs I understand, the main hypothesis for how the big bang does not violate energy conservation is the zero-energy universe hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe The general idea is that negative energy due to gravity (this is hard to wrap one's head around) perfectly cancels out all of the energy in the universe (including energy in the form of mass).