Conservation laws are often framed as eternal, unchanging truths — energy, momentum, charge conserved across the cosmos, as if the universe itself were frozen in timeless absolutes. Yet from a relational perspective, these are descriptions of patterns in relational potential, not immutable edicts. Conservation expresses constraints within networks of interactions, contingent on context and system boundaries. To treat them as eternal absolutes encourages a substance-based metaphysics and obscures the relational nature of reality: patterns are actualised here and now, not floating timelessly independent of events.
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