The Laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy: What's enforcing them?

The laws of conservation of mass and energy are not new concepts. Ancient Greece philosophy stated "nothing comes from nothing". 13th century Persian wrote "A body of matter cannot disappear completely. It only changes its form, condition, composition, color and other properties and turns into a different complex or elementary matter". The law is now that the mass of a closed system will remain constant. The question is: Where does this system end? And how valuable is this law if our system is constantly influenced by other systems? Also, if mass in general relativity is equivalent to energy, are we in need of a new law?

Do we really exist in a closed system? That entails a huge question: Is our universe the extent of everything? If you believe in multiple universes, then you have to ask this question: Are these universes connected? If you believe our universe is the extent of everything, then is our universe truly a closed system within itself?

Let's look at the scenario that our universe is truly alone first because it is easier to work with. The universe is our "closed system" and it is surrounded by a vast nothing. How secure is our system within itself? If there are wormholes all around us on an extremely small scale, that means that mass and energy are being transported through many different frames of time and space. At one time there could be more mass and energy than at another time, which would mean that the mass and energy are not constant in space over time. However, if the closed system is all four dimensions, then it would still be conservation of mass and energy in that mass is being transported through time, but still contained within the closed four dimensions of our universe.

However, if this is legal, then so is all of the mass and energy existing at one time, which can't be possible if there are an infinite amount of time units. In other words, there are an infinite amount of frames that you could stop time at and see the universe. If you don't understand how this works, then allow me to explain.

Life is sort of like a giant 3D movie. Notice, though, that 3D movies are called that because they only involve the three space dimensions. The 3D scenes of the movie have a limited amount of frames. You could watch it frame by frame and reach the end of the movie. Our four dimensional universe has an infinite amount of frames, though. If you tried to watch it frame by frame, you would not reach the next second, or the next nanosecond. That's because the time dimension is not made of finite units. Or at least so we think.

What if time is made of finite units. What if our universe is a decillion frames per second? Then it could be possible to have all of energy and mass exist at one time frame by transporting it via wormholes. However, that would be a ton of mass and energy compressed into one universe. If there were wormholes in our universe, then they could spread all of this mass and energy out evenly among time, but that means in order for the universe to exist properly, then each frame would have to be perfectly built just like the time frame before it with extremely slight differences in it! That's unlikely to happen via wormhole. The odds are so far against such a phenomenon that I am not going to consider that theory a possibility.

However, if our universe was a closed system in all four dimensions, then the wormholes could transport mass and energy amongst time and space and not be violating the laws of conservation of energy and mass. Then why isn't our universe changing much more? How come these wormholes aren't making an obvious impact? The sad truth is that we would not notice if a particle of matter randomly disappeared. It probably would not affect much. Therefore, it could be possible, but that idea is quite debatable. Earlier in the blog, it was generally decided that wormholes wouldn't work, and any particle going through the wormhole would collapse it. So if wormholes don't work, then that means that Our universe could be a closed system within its three dimensional space, and not have to worry about the complexities of time.

Of course, there is always another option. Quantum mechanics is going to attempt to tear apart conservation of mass. Matter particles disappearing and appearing supposedly destroy this theorem, but does it really? When a positron and an electron annihilate each other, they create a new particle and it's antiparticle. However, these new particles have more mass than the old ones! Note that antiparticles still have a positive mass. Therefore, this interaction does not make sense according to classical physics. But wait! There is another variable that has been forgotten! The electron and positron were collided at high energy! Now energy comes into play. By adding energy to the particles at high speed, the mass increases, and the particles collide. The new particles do not have this energy, only a greater mass. Therefore, energy has become mass!

Of course! According to one of the most well known equations in science, E=Mc^2, Energy and Mass are related! This equation shows that an amount of energy is equivalent to an amount of mass. Therefore, energy and mass are interchangeable!

Why doesn't this happen more often? Why doesn't energy become mass all the time? Well, the truth is that it does. Any time you apply a force to anything, mass is gained. However, as the energy is turned into friction and heat energy, the energy as mass is lost. On a quantum mechanics level, the effect is much more permanent.

Therefore, a new concept must be introduced. If Mass and Energy are equivalent, then they must be combined into something. I guess they could call it the Law of Conservation of Stuff (I couldn't think of any other names).

The Law of Conservation of Stuff should work within our closed system, but where does our closed system end? Let's look at a multiverse. If black holes or wormholes connected our universe to another universe, then would that other universe become a closed system? I think that our universe is a closed system as long as there is no transportation from our universe to somewhere else. However, if a wormhole connected us to another universe, then the closed system would be between the two universes. If they disconnect, then we are back by ourselves in our closed system.

I know most of you hate it, but let's try entering sting theory into this idea. The law of conservation of stuff would also make sense in M-theory because energy and mass particles are all made of strings, so the law holds. The strings would simply change vibration or whatever they have to do.

The one question now is where does all that stuff come from? Is it just there? We will probably never figure that out.

Now it's time for your input. Is it conservation of both mass and energy, with them being interchangeable? Or do the original laws of classical physics need to stay as they were?