Eli5: if Energy and mass are equal and transformable to one another, and if the sun is constantly projecting energy on the earth, why isn’t the earth getting heavier and constantly changing its orbit?

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Eli5: if Energy and mass are equal and transformable to one another, and if the sun is constantly projecting energy on the earth, why isn’t the earth getting heavier and constantly changing its orbit?

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Everyone else is correct, basically the amount of energy the Sun projects to Earth is not only a virtually negligible portion of the Sun’s full power, Earth is also losing energy via other processes. Plus, for the energy input to actually make the earth heavier, it would have to be blasted so thoroughly that everything and everyone is turned into a glowing ball of hot ass.