I know this sounds strange but I was walking the other day and I was thinking about highschool chemistry and science and started thinking about matter- how it already exist, cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Then how does anything grow- such as a tree or child? Other than water being the main mass made up of that matter, is the rest all nutirents? If a tree starts out as a seed, what goes into the tree as matter to make it as large as a tree (I understand about the tree dying, decaying and returning the matter perhaps the the soil. Same with a human. (I've been reading way to much Douglas Adams- sorry!)
Any insight into this would be great!
2007-07-25
08:56:53
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