[Still off-top] Physics [was Requests author discusses MentalHealthError exception]

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Gregory Ewing
> <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Conservation of energy would be one reason. If you put two particles
>> together and got more energy out than went in, where did the extra
>> energy come from?
>
> You borrowed it from the bank, of course. You have to make loan
> payments periodically, or they'll foreclose on your particles. If
> everyone borrows energy all at once, and then can't make their
> payments, the universe crashes in a "heat death".

Quantum Mechanics works like a corrupt central bank: you have an
unlimited credit line and can borrow energy out of nothing as long as
you repay the loan before the audit.


Marko