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It might sound a bit naive but,

How is it that conservation of energy is never broken, how is it that we know that always and for sure the energy in our universe is constant and we cannot create a destroyed energy.

I mean is there any mathematical and physical mechanism in the real world that has prevented this from happening or is it just that we have not been able to find any case where energy is being created from nothing that we have led to this conclusion?

Similarly for charges to how is it that in the universe all the charge that is created is conserved.

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As you probably realise, all the energy in the universe was there at the beginning, and according to the 1st Law of Thermodynamics can neither be created nor destroyed. If you are a believer in the Big Crunch - Big Bounce theory of an infinitely recycled universe, this makes perfect sense. One of the things that puzzle me about dark energy is where has this energy been hiding, as it must have been there since the time of the Big Bang. There is a Nobel Prize waiting for someone who can falsify the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, but so far no one has claimed it.

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