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Name: Ric R.
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Date: 8/26/2004
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Why is it, that the pure energy that exists in this universe, has no beginning, or end?

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Physics does not offer an answer "why", but one of the most solidly based OBSERVATIONS is that energy is "conserved" that is it can be transferred from one form to another but neither created or destroyed. Physics does not deal with what energy "is"; it deals with how energy behaves.

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