Proving conservation of heat for the Heat Equation in PDEs

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For $x\in \mathbb{R}$, let $u(x,t) = (\Gamma_{D} (\cdot , t ) \ast g)(x)$ with $g(x) \ge 0,$ and $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}g(x) dx < \infty$. Prove that for all $t>0$, $$ \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} u(x,t) dx = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} g(x) dx,$$ the meaning of this statement is that the total heat is conserved. Consider $$E(t) := \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} u(x,t)dx$$ and show that $E'(t) =0$. You may assume that for any $t>0$, $\lim\limits_{x\to -\infty} u_{x}(x,t) = \lim\limits_{x\to \infty} u_{x}(x,t) =0$.

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\begin{align} E(t) &:=\int_{-\infty}^\infty u(x,t) dx\\ E(t) &= \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \int_{-\infty}^\infty \frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi k t}} \exp{\left(\frac{-(x-y)^2}{4kt}\right)}g(y) \ dy\ dx\\ \frac{\partial}{\partial t}E(t) &= \int_{-\infty}^\infty \int_{-\infty}^\infty g(y) \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi k t}} \exp{\left(\frac{(x-y)^2}{4kt}\right)}\right) \ dy\ dx\ \\ \frac{\partial}{\partial t}E(t) &= \int_{-\infty}^\infty \int_{-\infty}^\infty g(y) \left( \frac{-1}{4 \sqrt{\pi d t^{3}}} + \frac{(x-y)^{2}}{8\sqrt{\pi d^{3} t^{5}}}\right)\exp{\left(\frac{(x-y)^2}{4kt}\right)} \ dy\ dx \ \end{align} I honestly do not know how to proceed from here. I feel like I'm off on the wrong track and that I'm missing something else for this proof.

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Plugging in the kernel is not the way to go, just plug in the heat equation itself:

$$\frac{d}{dt}\int_{-\infty}^\infty u\:dx = \int_{-\infty}^\infty \partial_tu\:dx = \int_{-\infty}^\infty \partial_x^2u\:dx =0$$

because the integral of a derivative is always zero.