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The Energy One Is the Easy One to Explain
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.