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Isnt it conserved? Why cant you see it anymore?

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

You're forgetting about "a thing moved up" and "some atoms are now attached to eachother differently"

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What brand light switches are you guys using?

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

AZ-5 switches.