You know what?

I'm becoming very convinced that conservation of energy is applying here. The sun seems almost black at times, hell sometimes it's blacker than the sky, which makes so little sense it hurts my head, but the increase in neutrrinos says to me that this is science, or at least scientific magic.

So I'm going to stick my neck out and say conservation of energy probably applies. What does that mean? I don't know yet, but I'm betting it'll be a useful assumption.