Conservation of Energy: What if the energy is not retained?

Karen J. Guerrero

The law of conservation of energy tells that the energy will not be created nor destroyed; it just will undergo a transformation. The energy can be transformed from potential to kinetic, from chemical to kinetic or other types also. Now I ask myself, what can happen if the energy is not retained?

When there is a collision between two objects, and one of them is detailed before the collision it has potential energy then during the collision when it is in move it has kinetic energy because of the conservation of energy it transforms and doesn’t destroyed. If instead of become to kinetic energy it remains potential, then the principle of conservation of energy is not being met. If it is not met, then can exist the possibility to accumulate as much potential energy that may, occur some natural phenomenon such that there is no way to decrease the amount of potential energy stored? A change will be observed in the object because now it will have more energy than in the beginning. Also we need to remind that there was a second object; the one that was in motion before the collision. So if the energy doesn’t retained the object will finish with the same energy, because the assumption is that it doesn’t retained if not that it can be created or destroyed. If the energy is created the first object will have more energy than at the beginning and the second object will have the equal energy that in the beginning instead of having less because some of it has transformed to potential. If this is the case the system of the the objects  can explode, can become larger o smaller, just like when you are looking in a convex mirror that the image looks smaller than real, and in a concave mirror that the image looks bigger than the real one. Instead of create energy it can be destroyed. What can be the consequence of destroyed de energy? If there is less energy in the system because of the destroyed, means that will not undergo a transformation into another type of energy, so there will be also less mass indicating that the mass also in not retained. So if the energy is not retained, the mass also will not retained because the energy depends on the mass of the object; no matter if we are talking about the potential energy U=mgh or kinetic energy where  K=mv^2/2.

After analyzed what can happen if the energy is not preserved, can be known that it can’t happen. Because if the energy is not preserved it will means that the mass is not conserve also, something that is completely false because there is a law also about conservation of mass. The energy will suffer a change from potential to kinetic or vice versa but it doesn’t mean that it is formed or created. If after a collision a system have more potential energy than in the beginning then the law of conservation of energy will guaranteed that the system will have less kinetic energy than in the start.