Ok, good to know. Now may I ask, what is the difference between the proposal of the conversation of mass...
And the proposal of the conservation of energy? (accepted to be false) Why is it any more logical that energy be conserved than mass be conserved? John On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:41 AM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:36 PM, John Berry <berry.joh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > There wasn't a law for the conservation of mass when the CoE was > proposed, but probably only because it would have seemed obvious. > > > > > > Conservation of mass was proposed by the chemist Antoine Lavoisier in the > late 18th century. This was about 50 years before the principle of > conservation of energy (as distinct from the principle of conservation of > momentum) was proposed by James Joule. > > Harry >
