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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 09 June 2012 11:44:41PM 3 points [-]

I'm not an expert in general relativity, and I hear that it's non-trivial to define the total energy of a system when gravity is non-negligible, but the local conservation of energy and momentum does still apply. (Is there any theoretical physicist specializing in gravitation around?)

Sean Carroll has a good blog post about energy conservation in general relativity.