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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3294884" data-attributes="member: 28553">Seems like everybody forgets that while energy doesn't exactly disappear, it's always turning into other kinds of energy.  A light bulb turns electricity into light, and then that light turns into heat when it strikes opaque surfaces.  Just what the hell "positive energy" turns into, though, who knows.As long as I'm inflicting high school science on fantasy physics, "negative energy" might not even be energy, any more than cold or darkness is.  Maybe it's just a severe lack of ambient positive energy in a given area, like a shadow.  So when positive and negative energy meet, maybe they just cancel each other out--like a space heater in a meat locker--resulting in a return to normal levels of positive energy in the local environment.Of course, none of this stuff is as interesting as positive energy sitting around, percolating like radioactivity, seeping into the ground to create weird life the same way an overabundance of negative energy might cause a zombie problem.</blockquote>