26 questions linked to/from Why can't energy be created or destroyed?
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### If energy cannot be created, how did the universe come into existence? [duplicate]

The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created. If that's the case, how did the universe come into existence? I mean, doesn't that require energy to be created? Excuse my ...
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### Why is energy conserved? [duplicate]

From basic principals, how does one prove that energy is conserved? Or a little more specifically - Why does this hold: $$\Delta \mbox{ PotentialEnergy} + \Delta \mbox{ KineticEnergy} = 0$$ Or, for ...
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### Is conservation of energy a set of principles that is inevitable in any 'possible world'? [duplicate]

It is usually stated in various books or stories 'Energy can't be created or destroyed , but is conserved'. I guess this is within a closed system. Are there any axioms or principles in physics that ...
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### From Noether's Theorem, is it true that the law of conservation of energy can be proved? [duplicate]

So what I understand is that the law of conservation of energy, likes Newton's law of motion, can't be proved. However, by Noether's Theorem, if there is a time symmetry, the energy is conserved. It ...
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### What is the reason behind why energy must always be conserved, apart from observation? [duplicate]

I know that we see in experiments (physical and thought) that energy is always transformed into something else, but what propels our universe to behave this way? What is happening at small levels that ...
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### Conservation of Energy in the Universe [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is energy really conserved? Why can’t energy be created or destroyed? One of the laws of the universe that dazzles me the most is the law of conservation of energy. I ...
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### How do we know that the conservation of energy is true? [duplicate]

As I have studied Mechanics and Thermodynamics, it appears that many of the concepts and ideas behind Physics depend on the Law of Conservation of Energy. The textbooks, however, don't explain where ...
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### How can energy be useful when it is 'abstract'?

The topic which haunted me for two years until I gave up on it. But now I am doing engineering and this topic suddenly popped out of my textbook from nowhere. I seriously need to understand this topic ...
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### How do we know that energy and momentum are conserved?

How do we know energy and momentum are conserved? Are these two facts taken as axioms or have they been proven by an experiment? This question has been in part addressed here: Conservation of ...
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### Energy conservation in General Relativity

I understand that energy conservation is not a rule in general relativity, but I'd like to know under what circumstances it can still be possible. In other words, when is it possible to associate a ...
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### Proof of conservation of energy?

How is it proved to be always true? It's a fundamental principle in Physics, that is based on all of our currents observations of multiple systems in the universe, is it always true to all systems? ...
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### Conservation law of energy and Big Bang?

Did the law of conservation of energy apply to the earliest moments of the Big Bang? If so, what theoretical physics supports this? I hear that Einstein's theory of relativity disputes the law of ...
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### On what basis do we trust Conservation of Energy?

I'm happy to accept and use conservation of energy when I'm solving problems at Uni, but I'm curious about it to. For all of my adult life, and most of my childhood I've been told this law must hold ...