using the law
of conservation of matter and energy, the energy given off by the sun simply transferrs to us thru food and warmth, but the whorshipping goes beyond that.
We have strict conservation of energy, not a
strict conservation of matter... as in «matter can neither be created nor destroyed (because it can in particle annihilation)».
Perhaps Einstein had something to do with changing the concept of
conservation of matter?
Answering a question like this «goes beyond facts and requires applying appropriate scientific principles, in this case,
the conservation of matter,» he said.
While using interactive clickers during a unit on
the conservation of matter, Crumrine found that 86 percent of his students incorrectly thought that the mass of a pile of iron nails in an open container would remain the same as the nails rusted, failing to take into account the additional oxygen.
Perhaps there should be, one analogous to the laws of
conservation of matter and energy, which Einstein assures us can be neither created nor destroyed.
Finally, since I feel compelled to complete the trifecta, there's this paper («Understanding Public Complacency About Climate Change: Adults» mental models of climate change violate
conservation of matter «-RRB- finding that a substantial majority of intelligent humans (the group studied was MIT grad students) have no grasp of stock and flow.
Subjects often select trajectories that violate
conservation of matter.