The law of conservation of energy states that energy must be conserved no matter what. So, how is it conserved in the decay process of elementary particles. For example, if a top quark ( Mass: 173.1 GeV/c2) decays into a bottom quark ( Mass: 4.18 GeV/c2) and w Boson ( Mass: 80.433 GeV/c2). If the Mass of the output isn’t equal to the Mass of the input then where did the “energy” go?
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Energy via E=MC^2
The energy is (in layman terms) just stored as mass which is then released during decay.
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