True, we try to understand. That’s why we’re on this forum. Religion was formed because people didn’t understand nature the stars etc. We still do not know about death. So religion still exists. I do not believe in religion as I believe it is used to keep people ignorant. Easier to control them if they’re ignorant. I like to question things, and learn new things. How was the universe started? Is there a reason to be? What is your reason to be?

Particle energy is kinetic energy. Which are affected by entropy.. I’ve read in science magazines that wave energy like radio waves, radiation. Etc. are not. The TTS experiment that is referred above was in a closed environment. And within that closed state it is VERY difficult to even produce.It does not show that energy conservation is continuous. Perpetual motion is affected by entropy and is snake oil.

May I ask what drives you to live?

At the big bang, current hypothesis is quarks and Neutrinos were created.They lost electrons because of the cooling. This created H3 the building block of the universe. Both matter and antimatter were created. Our universe has more matter and antimatter. Black holes are antimatter. We are all made of stardust. the universe is still expanding. Will it expand forever? Does energy exist in black holes?

Are stars and planets born and do they die? Yes. Everything dies. A light bulb needs an energy source. What I’m stating is we (and everything) are chemically based. If when we die, we are pure energy no need for time. We are no longer trapped in matter.

I disagree that time is eternal. We just try to understand our physical existence. I can understand everything was/is created from atoms colliding. We are chemical beings. But chemical reactions still need time to happen. H3 was formed by quarks, neutrinos losing electrons as they cooled.(https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2018/12/the-first-element). Can energy exist without time?

Energy happens when atom combine. “ Einstein's equation E = mc2 says that mass can be converted to energy and vice versa. If you extrapolate the expansion rate and temperature of the universe back to much closer to the Big Bang than when the cosmic microwave background was produced, you find that within the first few seconds, the energy of the photons was great enough to create particles like electrons and protons. But along with the ordinary particles, the photons also created the antimatter counterparts to the particles, e.g., anti-electrons (called positrons) and anti-protons. Antimatter is briefly discussed in the context of nuclear fusion and the neutrino sections of another chapter.

The antimatter counterpart of an ordinary particle has the same mass and opposite charge of the ordinary particle (if it is not neutral). When an ordinary particle and its antimatter counterpart collide, they completely annihilate each other to create photons. The process can be reversed if the photons have enough energy (i.e., are high-energy gamma ray photons). Within the first microsecond (10-6 second), the universe was hot enough for the photon radiation to undergo this matter-antimatter particle transformation using massive particles like protons and neutrons. When the temperature dropped to about 1013 K at one microsecond after the Big Bang, this process stopped for the protons but it continued for the less massive particles like the electrons. Neutrons were not created in the energy-matter conversion process but some were created when protons and electrons fused together.”

We are still learning. Chemistry, physics Shows everything is connected.

Why does religion exist? Because no one knows what happens when we die. Religion states if you believe (behave) you will be “rewarded“. Religion is used to manipulate the people. Keeping people ignorant allows those in power to control. I’m an atheist, and I look forward to death. To be released from a physical body. Everything is chemical, and even chemical and physic reactions are trapped by time. Personally I think when I die I will become E = mc2 (sorry, iPad doesn’t do power thingiies). Religion makes people fear death. Does religion make a person moral? No. When people find out I am an atheist, They are very surprised. They state “but you’re so nice”. Religion makes you think that you’re better than others. I don’t believe in that. Everything is connected. We are all chemical beings, made of stardust

Mathematical paradox “ In any instant, a moving object is indistinguishable from a nonmoving object: Thus motion is impossible.”
Without time there is no change, no before or after. We are trapped by time. Chemical and physic interactions are still trapped by time.

Mathematical paradox is defined “ In any instant, a moving object is indistinguishable from a nonmoving object: Thus motion is impossible.” we are trapped by time.