What do you think?

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Evidence seems to indicate no.

No....but that does make energy God : )

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When a person dies the only difference is that the energy which animated them dissipates and goes elsewhere. This allows decay to set in and the vessel returns to dust.

Which would mean that energy is immortal. Interesting.

From the movie "what the bleep do we know", scientist know that everything we see in this world is energy. What do we know of energy outside of this world? Outside of this universe, outside of cosmic?

Either we (our true Self) are energy or our body is energy. At physical death, can energy still be measured? If it can still be measured...what left the body?

Back to the movie: Scientist say that even the smallest particle of energy is not consistant...it pops in and out of existence. Where does it appear when it is not appearing in the physical realm?

My theory is that it appears no where. What we are witnessing is creation of an idea (the belief in a separation from God/spirit).....every moment anew.

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The truth is that I don't know. The Big Bang Theory claims that the early universe was all energy and no matter. It was perhaps hundreds of thousands of years before the formation of up and down quarks, then protons and neutrons which constitute what we call matter. I personally think or guess that everything is energy, even matter. Keep in mind that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny nucleus while the rest of the atom is empty but for electrons with are actually energy clouds or spheres at various levels around the nucleus. But I think protons and neutrons are composed of quarks which are made up of energy (perhaps ultra-small vibrating energy superstrings.)

So I don't think energy can be created or destroyed. It can only be altered into particles or mass or that mass can be converted into energy.

I don't know what preceded the Big Bang but I believe energy was there but in some configuration that we cannot test yet. Brian Green poses the cosmic membrane theories of waves in the two cosmic membranes occasionally touch each other creating a Big Bang and a universe. Thus there may be googols or googolplexes of universes in which even the laws of physics might be quite different. And that leaves us with the issue of Time whether is Time constant or does it vary as some equations suggest. To really make my head spin, I think about 11 dimensions then I pass out.

Amergin

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Bingo! The more we know about this, the more we know we really don't know much. Quantum mechanics is still in its infancy as far as our understanding of it is concerned.

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Just to throw another theory at you. One of the cosmologists (I can't recall which one) hypothecizes that this small ball (roughly the size of a present day pearl or marble), consisted of a high mass of energy (an extremely dense black hole), but this energy had some movement (which is characteristic of energy), and some charges that oppose each other got into too close a proximity, thus starting the expansion (actually two expansions a small fraction of a second apart).





That has already been established, and time is not a constant as Einstein theorized.

Shabbat shalom.

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Pure energy which can be harvested from within the earths bioshpere can never be destroyed but then the contradiction we are all faced with is we all have witnessed man made energy be created and destroyed i believe one would call this a paradox?