2006-07-11 23:14:09 · 21 answers · asked by Ritch 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fundamentally the Universe is nothing, at the quantum level.
2006-07-12 01:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by Red P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is good question. Something cannot come from nothing by definition since whatever one might call nothing in that scenario had at least the potential to become something.
At the Big Bang energy was released which transforms itself into matter - hence the Big Bang should be thought of as transition from one state to what is observed today. There are interesting theories being developed about what existed before the Big Bang. Indeed, it seems that the Big Bang may have been just one of any number of Big Bangs and hence not that special in the greater scheme of things (kind of special to us, though). What we call 'time' also arose at the Big Bang - so it is likely that the universe (or more likely multiverse) is what we would call eternal. People who aren't too knowledgeable about science think the universe has to make sense to us in our terms (ie has to have been 'created' by something or someone) but this is just ignorance as relativity and quantum mechanics prove this isn't the case - the universe simply is the way it is whether it makes sense to us in our terms or not. That's what science does - try to find out how the universe really is, regardless of whether this makes it comforting for us or not.
2006-07-12 06:30:48 · answer #2 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything simply "popped" into existence from nothing. It happened because it was possible. Had it not been possible it would never have happened.
Read up on quantum mechanics and it will help you understand. Unfortunately quantum physics seems like things go on that just don't make sense. It's fascinating stuff, but mind boggling.
Eventually everything may (or not) return to the state of non-existence..... and start all over again, time after time.
Remember that matter is merely a form of energy and emptiness.
2006-07-12 06:31:25 · answer #3 · answered by pieter U3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there was never a state of nothing and always a something. Since we are here, the odds of something existing are not that low. It is possible that there were many unsuccessful (non-life producing) universes before this one.
There are a lot of theories which are promising in getting us closer to answering the question of where everything came from before the big bang. But, at this point we can just make educated guesses.
2006-07-12 06:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask a sensible scientific question and the God squad jump in!
Science says there was a singularity which held all the mass in the universe compressed to an immensley small size and that then exploded violently outward scattering matter in al directions.
If nothing existed how could no nothing exist? There would have to be some other form of nothing - Warning don't try following that line of thought it will adle your brain!
If the God squad say he created it from nothing when nothing existed he would surely have created himself. because nothing by definition contains nothing.
2006-07-12 06:27:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we go in to find the roots, Christians what came out of what, before big bang what was there? etc. and the others could ask who created god? where was he ? what was he doing for so long ? What form is he in (Spirit, physical body) etc...
What matters is, as intelligent beings, understanding our own existence and what is expected from us at this level of evolution. I am not saying that it is not good to learn how everything began - may be time will answer this universal question, but the level we as the human race is in, I think it's a bit off our boundaries.
2006-07-12 06:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by R G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah nothing should exist but it's there. I think there is a God so i think he made something from nothing. Although that isn't possible here. But God is God. He sould be able to do anything. If anyone else has a sensible suggestion i'd like to know.
2006-07-12 06:19:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matter can be created out of energy. Stars and thermonuclear explosions are the example of that.
E=mc2 (energy equals mass multiplyed by speed of light squared)
Energy can be produced from mass, and vice versa.
Now, the question is, where did all this energy come from? Was it always there or did it come from the source of infinite energy, God? No one will ever know.
2006-07-12 10:25:50 · answer #8 · answered by wilde_space 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is true, nothing SHOULD exist..yet it does! For here we are! :) All matter came from God, it is sustained by His Almighty Will,...and at some point it will all be "changed". Something worth examining don't you think?...
2006-07-12 06:20:16 · answer #9 · answered by maranatha132 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amazing people can give really long answers and yet still not answer the question you asked. Whether it was a big ban or not God created the whole world. End of story
2006-07-12 07:30:44 · answer #10 · answered by Smart_Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋