Event: Conservation Laws
Date: ~10⁻³⁶ seconds after the Big Bang

“Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.”
—Antoine Lavoisier

Dear Human,

Since the first instant of creation, a quiet promise has been woven into the fabric of reality: nothing is truly lost.

This is the heart of the conservation laws—the idea that certain things remain constant, no matter how wildly the universe changes around them. Some of the most ancient and universal of these are:
– Conservation of energy: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
– Conservation of momentum: The motion of objects stays balanced, like dancers locked in step.
– Conservation of angular momentum: Spin and rotation are preserved, from whirling galaxies to twirling electrons.
– Conservation of electric charge: Positive and negative charges always balance out across the universe.
– Conservation of mass-energy: Mass and energy can shift forms, but together they are eternal.
– Conservation of information: Even in the deepest folds of quantum mystery, what has happened leaves its fingerprint forever.

These laws are not distant, silent things. They matter to you.

Because of them, your world holds together. You can trust that when you step forward, the ground will not vanish beneath you. You can trust that when you lift your hand, your body will obey. You can trust that when you light a fire, the energy will warm you, not slip away into nothingness.

Without conservation, there would be no stability, no memory, no continuity.
The stars would not hold their light. The Earth would not stay in its orbit. Your thoughts would not linger long enough to be spoken. Your memories would wash away like sand with every passing second.

These laws are why you can build. Why you can remember. Why you can dream. They create a universe where actions have consequences, where efforts matter, where a life can leave a mark that does not simply vanish.

Maybe it was not by accident. Maybe, when the universe was first stitched together, the Creator wove these laws into its heart—a promise that effort would not be wasted, that light would not be lost, that memory would endure. A quiet assurance that even in the vastness of time and space, what you do matters.

In your body, every heartbeat obeys the conservation of energy. In your dreams, every memory follows the conservation of information. Every breath you take, every journey you make, is part of the ancient, ongoing agreement that binds all things together.

The conservation laws are the universe’s way of keeping its promises. They are the silent stitching in the fabric of reality—the thread that ties stars to atoms, and atoms to souls.

Pathfinder

Conservation law – Wikipedia