Science, Energy & Time

Last Sunday Ange and I where heading back to Ballarat after another all-too-short weekend at home. Ange is doing Year 12 this year, and her favourite subject is Chemistry. She's a freak, but a science freak as she doesn't mind Physics either. So we where talking about science and stuff and I came out with this statement/question

"Energy can never be created, nor destroyed right? It just changes forms. That being the case, why is there any energy at all? Why not nothing?"

I'm sure people have thought about it before. Because the same goes for matter. For energy to have never been created, it has to have always existed. If energy has always existed without being created, the Universe is of infinite age & there is no time, and the earth should've been destroyed several times over by greedy people by now. But because we can measure time something in my prior reasoning, or one of my assumptions is wrong. (Unless you don't believe in absolute truth, but that's another blog for another day.)

I believe I know the answer. As I'm sure many of you do. Is there a science law in there that I'm missing? Are there alternative explanations to the one I believe to be true?

NEW RELIENT K ALBUM!

Relient K's new album "Five Score & Seven Years Ago" is being released worldwide on the 6th of March. Which is this Tuesday, I wonder if they'll have copies in WORD Ballarat by this Friday for me to get. Look here to find out....

FINAL YEAR

So, I'm heading back to Ballarat tomorrow. To embark upon my FINAL YEAR OF UNI! (How does that feel Prof-praccers?) Anyway, I have to say. Mixed feelings all around. It's good that I'm going back to see my Uni mates, it's good that I'm going to be doing something productive with my time & not wasting it. It's UNREAL that I'm a final year. So close to a real job, real money & a real life. At the location of my choosing. I can't believe all that is laid out before me & all I have to do is take it. The possibility of moving to Adelaide is one that is almost too good to be true.

Yet, every time I think of this possibility three very distinct things happen:

1. I think of how awesome being that close to Tiarnee would be.
2. I get this horrible taste of the remaining dregs of the Murray River in my mouth.
3. I remember a saying that I once heard "we make sacrifices for what we love." 1 Corinthians 13 sums that all up really.

The flip side to those mixed feelings is that: Tiarnee will be 600km away, holidays are fun and I hate packing. (& unpacking!) Oh & the Internet isn't free any more.