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Imagine two stationary planets close together start falling towards each other, they don't orbit or spin, instead they just move closer until they collide, this causes massive amounts of energy to be released in the form of heat and light which radiates away.
So where is this energy coming from if the mass and gravity hasn't changed?
Remember they are the same size, not moving or spinning and only separated by a relatively short distance (like the moon and earth), yet the force of gravity manages to pull them together causing a huge impact which releases a lot of energy, it seems normal but here energy appears to be created and radiated away, nothing has change except the space between them, energy was created from two objects changing location and merging.
So where is this energy coming from if the mass and gravity hasn't changed?
Remember they are the same size, not moving or spinning and only separated by a relatively short distance (like the moon and earth), yet the force of gravity manages to pull them together causing a huge impact which releases a lot of energy, it seems normal but here energy appears to be created and radiated away, nothing has change except the space between them, energy was created from two objects changing location and merging.