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Matter cannot be created nor destroyed - elementary Physics

Matter can be converted to pure energy and vice-versa - quantum (non-elementary) physics.

16 posted on 08/23/2016 10:50:00 AM PDT by snarkpup (Socialism causes the worst people to become in charge - if they aren't already.)
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Matter can be converted into energy and vice versa.

True, but not part of Quantum Mechanics. The interchangeability of matter and energy is a consequence of the Special Theory of Relativity, which is not a Quantum Mechanical theory, and which predates Quantum Mechanics by about two decades.

30 posted on 08/23/2016 11:13:49 AM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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