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Is Energy Actually Conserved?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Conservation of Energy Is Not Always Conserved

If the universe in which you're doing your experiment is fixed if space time is fixed it's not changing Then yes energy is conserved. But as soon as you break the symmetry of space time as soon as space time is changing Energy is no longer guaranteed to be conserved because it only was conserved because space time was not changing. We live in dynamic space time, which means energy fundamentally is not conserved It means that energy is not the deep true quantity that we thought it was and It's not the important thing to be thinking about Mm. I see so maybe to match up our intuitions to this new ideaWe have to maybe expand our idea of conservation of energy like

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