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by gowld
2938 days ago
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It's not obvious on its face, as it must be "properly understood" as you say. It takes years of education before people realize that the known laws of physics are just approximations or historically refined by discovering new details. "conservation of mass" is either utterly trivial ("Nothing comes from nothing... except stuff that does") or has grown its asterisks over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass#History |
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It's in high school chemistry textbooks. Typically in the first chapter or two. I'm assuming the audience of this site has taken at least one chemistry class in their life. Whether or not they paid attention is their own problem.