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So it sounds like you can break a piece of wood, in which case the sum of the mass of the two parts will exceed the mass of the original piece, or burn it in which case the mass of the sum of the parts will be less than the original whole, but there is no way to destroy the piece of wood (or...

Thank you, that answers my question.

First of all, thank you all for your timely and helpful responses, Perhaps a better question might be "is it theoretically possible that all of the mass be preserved in the process of breaking the wood, while in the same sense impossible for the products of splitting an atom to have the same...

Hi everyone, I'm an undergrad philosophy major and I have a few specific physics questions, the answers to which shall help me write my final paper for metaphysics this semester. The most important question is: if you break something simple like a piece of wood, could you expect that the sum...