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If energy can only be transfered to other energy how did we end up with any energy at all?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Although I love Einstein, E-mc2 is only a THEORY. I think you need to look back to the creationism THEORIES of the Big Bang, Quantum theory, Universal theory, String theory. Engery is neither created or destroyed. We get engery to use because of lost energy in other reactions. Combustion has a lot of energy in the form of heat and light. etc....

  • 2 decades ago

    The First Law of Thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, that is it a constant in our universe. It also says that energy can only be converted into other forms of energy.

    However, this law doesn't explain where energy came from.

    I think that physics states that atoms are the source of all energy, whether it be energy found in humans, coal, plants, or a pencil.

    I remember in Physics class our teacher telling us that all energy started with the "Big Bang." But that is just a theory, not a proven fact.

  • 2 decades ago

    The belief that energy can be transferred only to other forms of energy is not completely true. In fact, energy can be converted to and from mass also. This mass-energy conversion is guided by the famous Einsteinian equation E=m csqurae. Here E is energy, m is mass converted to energy and c is the speed of light.

    Energy is actually created from mass in nuclear power plants from fission reactions going on.

    Initially all the energy in the universe came from the explosion of the singularity at the time of big bang. Then a lot of mass was converted to energy.

    The primary source of all energy on earth is the Sun. and solar energy is also the product of mass-energy conversion. Please note that whatever energy on earth we convert from one forn to another has actually come from the sun from conversion of its mass into energy.

    An exception is nuclear energy from power plants that i have already told comes from mass-energy conversion.

  • 2 decades ago

    Actually energy can be converted into matter and vice versa. Thats what E=Mc2 is all about.

    Einstein disproved Newton's Laws of Thermodynamics. Newtonian physics is still usefull for Engineering and many other practical applications, its just that the Law of Conservation of Energy is not 100% true.

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  • 2 decades ago

    Creation. Or the Big Bang. Or some other unrealistic theory. It doesn't seem possible, does it? And yet, here we are... matter and energy. No one knows how it all began.

  • 2 decades ago

    Because, it CAN be transferred NOT that is ALWAYS gets transferred. We have CHEMICAL energy STORED in our bodies.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Food and God (Jesus) provides us energy

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