The Law of Energy Conservation

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There's all sorts of different kinds of logic that we use for different purposes, under different assumptions and so forth. Shaheel says energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Rather, it can only be transformed to transferred from one form or another. When the universe is mostly dominated by radiation, that energy goes down as time goes on. On the other hand, when the energy is largely dominated by dark energy, it goes up as time goeson.

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