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On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Conservation of energy would be one reason. If you
> put two particles together and got more energy out than
> went in, where did the extra energy come from?

You borrowed it from the bank, of course. You have to make loan
payments periodically, or they'll foreclose on your particles. If
everyone borrows energy all at once, and then can't make their
payments, the universe crashes in a "heat death".

ChrisA