2006-09-14 10:10:27 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You can't have something from nothing (Law of Conservation of Mass), meaning that you can't take empty space and convert in into matter. But you can have energy converted to matter and vice versa. The equation that illustrates this is Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2
2006-09-14 10:14:07 · answer #1 · answered by shamand001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is convertible into matter . Any point in space is made up of lot of particle - antiparticle pairs . wuhahaha --this is my own theory .. just a theory not backed up by scientific evidence.
However , if anyone can prove that matter can pop up out of space , then that might be an answer to the question as to "how the universe might have suddenly originiated from nothingness or rather empty space"
2006-09-15 10:56:27 · answer #2 · answered by venkat Subramaniam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No no, no, you can't convert space in matter.
and Braxton Paul isn't right, because what he is describing is just a theory, no more. We don't have evidence.
Besides it is more likely to find evidence for the so called Hawking radiation (also "only" a theory, but a genius one) than for the described effect in quantum mechanics, that is part of the string theory.
2006-09-14 17:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by jhstha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't htink you could convert space to matter, but space is not filled with nothing according to string theory. What we perceive as nothingness is actually "something". It is something that exists, but we cannot detect as of now. Accord ign to string theory, everything in the universe is made of strings. The number of different types of string and number of dimensions is still under question.
2006-09-14 22:32:31 · answer #4 · answered by bjmarchini 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to your question is yes, but only if we talk about space at sizes smaller than 1.6 times 10 to the minus 35 meters (..that's 1.6 with 35 zeroes in front of the 1) This is the scale where quantum effects take place, and one of them is so-called virtual particles that pop into existence out of nothing. These occur in pairs and because one is the anti-particle of the other they almost instantaneously self-annihilate.
2006-09-14 17:27:28 · answer #5 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi. Braxton Paul is right. However if the particle/anti-particle pair form near a black hole's event horizon, one can be "grabbed" while the other escapes. (This is Hawking Radiation) So, yes it is possible.
2006-09-14 17:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
space, as in outer space, is actual a vacum. there are no particals, there is nothing. you can't turn nothing into something. therefore, you can't turn space into matter.
2006-09-14 17:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by celle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brain hurts
2006-09-14 18:21:56 · answer #8 · answered by jjc1138 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋