if energy can never be destroyed or created where do we go when we die?

Answer 1

Who knows? But the energy contained in our bodies is released into the atmosphere eg as heat energy.

Answer 2

Energy CAN be converted- and that is what happens.

Most of the energy in a human body is chemical. The electrical and heat energy in the body are both generated by the chemical process of metabolizing our food.

After death, we loose energy here and there through various processes, but most of our stored energy is in a chemical form and is used (in a natural setting) to fertilize the soil. In cremation, the energy converts to heat, etc.

The question is- 'Is there a part of a human other than the physical or organic element? Is there some aspect that is not measured or directly observable? Is the soul real?"

We honestly do not know the answer to this, although there does not seem to be one. So far as we can tell, the soul is just another organic process.

This is not meant to lessen its role in us as people, just that there does not seem to be any validity to the whole 'soul as a seperate element' part of the debate.

Answer 3

Unrelated phrases in your sentence structure. Science postulates that energy can never be destroyed or created. Or, more precisely, the sum of energy and mass, the space-time continuum remains constant due to E=mc 2. When your body dies, obviously the breakdown of the elements in your body get recycled. Dust to dust.
Your spirit returns to God who created it.

The dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7

Answer 4

Well, our cells break down and die just like every other physical matter. The electric impulses that run through our neurons, nerves, or brain cells are energy, but they are deciphered as emotions, feelings, actions and other things that take place in our bodys through our cells. We are composed of matter, it decays and breaks apart. There is no soul that is us, because our personalities, emotions, memories and feelings are DNA and information stored in our cells, without the vital parts of our body, the energy would have no place to have any meaning. We would cease to exist as we were. Sad but true, no one wants to accept it. If we have a soul, it has nothing to do with our personality or what we comprehend as us.

Answer 5

your question is not stated correctly.

you are referring to the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy. It states(simplified): matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. they can change forms into each other.

you are not energy, you are matter. you are 70% water. when you die the water evaporates or removes itself from your body. the remaining 30%, breaks down into a dust of particles.

Answer 6

I believe our spirits live on within a Christian reference, keep in mind, our spirits are a sort of energy or matter than scientists haven't learned the properties of yet, and so it's quite likely they follow different laws of nature.

But, for the scientific aspect of this question, there is something called "heat death" which is when the last bits of energy become scattered so much that they don't come back together on their own. (that's what happens to our bodies as they decay).

best wishes

Answer 7

Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed--but it can be transferred.

When we die, our bodies disassociate into more basic compounds.

As for the soul--if you believe in one--that is a matter for theologians.

Answer 8

After we die, our body's energy is converted to heat and chemical energy in the organisms that consume us.

Answer 9

No one knows. Dont think about it too much. Live life to the fullest because I personally believe we dont go anywhere. The energy leaves and thats it.

Answer 10

Einstein believed in life after death for that exact reason. He wouldn't speculate on what form that would take though, just that energy never dies and therefore there must be some sort of "life after death."