Anyway, as it is, thermal energy would increase as the mass it was contained in decreased, correct?
I have no idea what you are saying here. I don't see any reason why thermal energy would have to increase in such a situation. And why are you talking about mass decreasing? Where is the mass going?
Thus, the Big Bang contained the absolute energy of the universe, right? But the key is that that energy couldn't have come into existence on its own. The problem is where all this matter and energy originated.
It seemed to me that you had alluded to one possible answer when you noted that the total energy of the universe might actually be zero.
Also, we don't know a damn thing about dark matter. It's just a theory, and antimatter, well, we all know the destruction that can cause.
We know somethings about the properties dark matter must have. My understanding is things like invisible regular matter and anti-matter are ruled out as candidates.
isn't it entirely possible that you could transform a negative energy value into a negative mass value? Therefore, it is also possible that mass can exist as a negative.
Yikes, bro...
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