Is Energy Really Conserved?

Today on the program, we'll be challenging a very core and fundamental idea in physics. This is something pretty basic that if you ask folks on the street they would be pretty confident with true. But it turns out we've learned a lot about the nature of the universe And it might actually not be quite so fundamental. It's exciting when a bunch of smart people's go never mind We thought there was flat, but actually it's a giant ball.