In general relativity, if the background. is completely stationary, then energy would be conserved. But that's not true in the expanding universe. The Higgs field has a non-zero value in empty space and therefore breaks symmetry of electroweak theory. This leads to a non-conservation of charge of the electroweak part of the charge. So these are tricky questions, but good ones.

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