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Atoms
I have been told that atoms cannot be created or destroyed although this does not make a lot of sense to me. Howver if this is true how is the population increasing? Is this to do with people dying, decomposing this becoming part of the soil and where plants grow which are eaten in a simplified version?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ....disagree with what Gef, I didn't give an opinion. I posed a question and brought up a point about definitions.
In an absolute sense create means "make from nothing", however it can also mean "produce from existing components". Similar definitions are applicable to the term destroy.
During fission/fusion atoms are changed even if that means that 1 becomes 2, or even more, and vice versa. This does not mean that the subatomic particles have in any way appeared or disappeared, the nett effect is no change in number.
Now if you were to alter the argument slighty and make it about matter and antimatter...