Where Does Your BODY’S ENERGY Go When You Die?” — Feynman on Conservation

Podcast: Feynman Reborn: Physics Explained · Feynman Reborn

Opublikowano: 2026-11-02

You're warm right now. 98.6°F. That warmth is energy — and the laws of physics guarantee it can never be destroyed. So when you die, where does it actually go? Not poetically. Not spiritually. Physically. Every joule, every atom, every trace. The answer takes you from the jiggling molecules in your hand to the core of a dying star to the first seconds after the Big Bang. In this video, we trace the complete energy budget of a human body — thermal, chemical, nuclear, and mass-energy — through death, decomposition, and back into the cosmos. Drawing from the thermodynamic principles Feynman explore...