Conservation of Energy

Imagine you have a box of Lego bricks. Even if you break a Lego castle down, the bricks do not disappear; they just wait to be built into a spaceship. Everything in the whole universe is like those bricks. When a plant or animal finishes its life, its bricks of energy go back into the world to help something else grow. This means that life is always moving and changing shapes, but it never truly goes away. You are made of the same stuff that used to be stars!

You are made of the same stuff that used to be stars. Nothing is created. Nothing is destroyed. Everything just changes costumes. The energy reading this right now is billions of years old.

The First Law of Thermodynamics: total energy of an isolated system remains constant. In biology, death is a phase transition where localized low-entropy state dissipates into the environment, fueling the wider biosphere's negentropic processes. Chemical potential energy transitions to kinetic energy and heat. Nothing ends. Everything transfers.

SOUND: The humming vibration of a tuning fork that slowly fades but never quite stops.

SMELL: Petrichor — rain on dry dirt, signaling a change in state.

TASTE: A piece of fruit that grew using the energy of the sun and soil.

TOUCH: The warmth of your own skin: heat energy being used right now.

SIGHT: A flickering candle flame dancing as it turns wax into light.

BODY: Your lungs expanding and contracting in a never-ending circle: energy cycling through you.

Music: Singing From the Windows by Dave Matthews Band

Music: Stoney Creek by Xavier Rudd

Music: Shovels & Dirt by The Strumbellas

Music: Newton's Law by 5 Seconds of Summer

Music: Heavy by Linkin Park

Part of Seasons & Cycles — NATURE — Education Revelation