Energy Is Not the Important Thing

Energy is something we thought was deep and fundamental But what's actually important to cosmologists are things like curvature and expansion Those are the fundamentally interesting things about the universe not the energy Mm. I guess maybe what would trip people up is thinking about where that energy comes from Right. That's sort of the origin of the original question if the universe is expanding and there's more energy being created Where does it come from? Are you saying that energy can just be created out of the blue? Yes, that's exactlyWhat we're saying is that we've discovered that it doesn't have to come from anywhere It only has to come from somewhere if it's conserved. There are things