What Is a Calorie and How Does It Affect the Universe?

In 1770, in Australia, Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay. And at that point in time, humans did not know what a fire is and what happens to the mass that vanishes. Antoine Lavoisier who was a French scientist, he put it all together. By 1788, he had discovered that when you burn anything, the mass that's going missing is turning into carbon dioxide gas and water vapor. The amount of heat that it takes to raise the temperature of a cubic centimeter of water by one degree Celsius has been defined as a calorie.