Isnt it conserved? Why cant you see it anymore?

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    And the remaining 1% of the time it is, “It excited an electron in this atom into a higher state, which will drop down later and emit some radiation, which will then hit something and then be converted to heat.”

    Every once in a blue moon it’s, “It overloaded this atom’s nucleus and now that atom is two atoms. And some heat.” Those are always fun times.

    But at the end of the day the answer is always heat… eventually.