Where did it come from? It seems like it should not exist. That space should just be empty. Just nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
2006-07-24 17:23:01 · 7 answers · asked by curious_inquisitor 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
kyle - Sounds like you mean why shouldn't there be. Well, would it not have to come from somewhere?
2006-07-24 17:34:58 · update #1
why isnt there not matter in space??? can you answer that
2006-07-24 17:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Kyle K 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Why is there anything, rather than nothing"...? An excellent question! However, this belongs in the philosophy or religion department. Science can tell you all about how it behaves, but nothing about why it is there. Just like history can tell you who Abraham Lincoln was, but not why he was born.
I'd like to suggest to you the books of Francis Schaeffer, who was a philosopher and theologian; he lived in Switzerland and founded the L'Abri Fellowship.
He grew frustrated with people who tried to discuss the origin of the universe, starting with nothing, and then tried to slip in matter or energy or time or space, or something else.
Schaeffer tried to define Nothing-nothing: take a blackboard on which nothing has ever been written. Draw a circle on that blackboard with a piece of chalk. That circle contains everything that exists. Now erase the circle. Now throw away the blackboard.
THAT is what he meant by Nothing-nothing. Real Nothing. True Nothing. You will find his conclusions interesting and intellectually rigorous.
2006-07-25 00:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question, I've thought about this years ago too.
The only thing I can think of is this...
For a second forget about all the matter and stuff and focus on your brain. Your perspective is shooting a ray. But there is no perspective of "everything". Nothingness is of no greater value than something in the perspective of "everything" because "everything" has no perspective.
This arises many new questions and also questions such as what about laws? Symmetry? It also doesn't provide the greatest answer just more of an assumption that "it is possible" rather than "it must happen!"
It may be better than nothing, it's the best I have.
Just think
Everything = Valueless
By the way this is one of those questions that you can become overwhelmed by each time you think of it, and then choose to completely ignore it also.
And for those of you who think religion answers this question think again...this question is like the idea of determinism, it is loop holed infinitley!
2006-07-25 03:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by mathcore321x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all came from a large lump of mass called the cosmic egg. It blew apart in one huge explosion called the big bang. As to why matter exists, it is linked to energy. As long as there is energy, there will always be matter. Perhaps not as we know it, but it will be there.
2006-07-25 00:31:23 · answer #4 · answered by eric l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The space is just the empty areas between matter..
The space is indeed empty..
There was no space and no matter together and then
the seperated and became space & matter..
2006-07-25 00:34:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first of all, there isn't very much of anything in space. You really can't imagine how very little there is out there.
What tiny bits of matter there are are essentially ejecta from super-novas and similar cosmic phenomena.
2006-07-25 00:33:32 · answer #6 · answered by Argon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So far nobody know !! not even any plants or animals on this earth ...
2006-07-25 01:17:35 · answer #7 · answered by Raja Chai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋