Conservation of Mass

Hello Humans! There is this amazing Chemistry and Physics law called, "The Law of Conservation of Mass." It's very straightforward: "Matter cannot be created nor destroyed." Anything with mass is known as matter, that is why it is called "The Law of Conservation of Mass," rather than "The Law of Conservation of Matter." It just sounds better. Anyways, this means that you can not just make matter appear out of nowhere, or disappear out of nowhere. For example, when you boil water, and if you keep boiling it, the water will "disappear." However, we scientists know that the water has merely evaporated and is now in a gaseous form that our eyes cannot see. Then if you condense this water vapor, it will seem as though water "appears" into a glass. This is also not correct. The water came from the water molecules that were already there.

Applying this to the creation of the World, means that when the world was "created," it did not just form out of thin air, like a lot of us might imagine. Rather, it was, as is put in the gospel, taking matter, unorganized, and organized it. The earth was made out of the same elements that make up the rest of the Universe. The same Carbon, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen that makes up your body came from space, probably from a dying star. That same oxygen that you are breathing in once resided in deep space. The Iron in your blood probably came from a planet. We are made up of the same elements as stars. And that's not just saying that we have the same elements in us as the stars have in them, but literally, we have elements that once were stars, now apart of us. This also means that eventually, when we die our atoms will go on to help replenish the earth, eventually making it into plants and their fruit, and then into another human, becoming a part of them. It's just beautiful to think about, isn't it? We are all, in a way, one. Makes you look at people differently, when you look at them on an atomic level. And then one day, when this galaxy gets demolished by our sun burring out, we will become part of a new planet.

The lyric from George Harrison's song, "Within You, Without You," becomes that much more meaningful when you think of life this way. "And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you... When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there. And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you." Stay wild, flower child.