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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It’s not like the Sun is aiming all of its “lost” energy at the Earth with something like a laser. Only a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the Sun’s energy is hitting the Earth……
Like, sure, the Earth’s mass does increase due to energy from the Sun but most of it is just radiated back into space. Mass is made up of a lot of energy.