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[Rob Tucker]

I have always considered Issac Newton's work to be foundational in many ways including what could even be called religion.

Isaac Newton and the Principle of “Nothing is Lost”.

The idea that “nothing is lost” is closely tied to Sir Isaac Newton’s formulation of the law of conservation of energy, one of the foundational principles of physics. While Newton did not use the exact phrase “nothing is lost,” his work established that energy cannot be created or destroyed — it can only be transformed from one form to another.

Newton’s Contribution
In his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), Newton laid the groundwork for classical mechanics, including the laws of motion and universal gravitation. His work, combined with later developments in thermodynamics, led to the modern statement of the first law of thermodynamics:

Energy is not lost or destroyed; it is merely transferred from one party to another.

Newton’s laws and the conservation of energy principle mean that energy is never truly lost — it changes form and location. This is why the phrase “nothing is lost” is often used to describe the idea that energy transformations are reversible in principle, even if in practice some energy becomes less useful due to entropy (the second law of thermodynamics).

Fun stuff. Just need to consider consciousness as a form of energy.

Please don't make me regret posting this....