Posted: Oct 01, 2011 1:41 pm
Suddenly, much becomes clear. It seems that our earlier disagreement rests upon what actually constitutes a violation. I would contend that short-term or local violations are no violation at all, because conservation holds overall. I think this is the semantic sticking point we were held up on, and I see no problem now in your earlier contention, as long as it's made clear that what we're talking about is local violations, either in the temporal sense or otherwise. The net energy/mass remains the same overall, yes?