so I was watching the TV and I think it was national geographic channel. They did a special on black holes...the whole thing got me thinking...in science, it is a general maxim that you cannot make something from nothing.
Scientists think they have a connection between the birth of galaxies and black holes, that the former springs from the latter at it's early stages of life.
If this were true...then where did the black hole and gasses surrounding itcome from? I mean you keep going back in time, and back in time...was there every NOTHING in the universe? If so where did the first particle come from?
I am agnostic, but this questions sometimes makes me wonder if there is or was a supreme creator of some kind.
What do you think?
I am looking for more scientific based answers, I don't need to hear..."God created it" remember I am agnostic :-)
2007-03-13 19:57:20 · 8 answers · asked by CBJ 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
arch: no, I mean agnostic, it means that you "don't know" ...there could be and there might not be a god.
as opposed to athiest which means that you believe there is NO GOD.
2007-03-13 20:29:55 · update #1
How fitting, I just finished the book 'Big Bang' by Simon Singh yesterday. Excellent book, very fun to read as well as informative. For someone such as yourself, with questions like these, this book is perfect. A couple of paragraphs here cant really explain all the history behind the cosmological model accepted by over 99% of the scientific community. As an atheist, I do not believe or worship any god. My religious friends believe that the big bang theory is trying to dis-prove God's existance. I thought that it was rather ironic that in reading his book, Singh points out that the Big Bang was originally proposed by the Belgian Catholic priest/astrophysicist Georges Lemaitre and that in 1952 the Pope Pius XII actually declared that he was very much impressed with the big bang model. If you decide not to buy the book, at least look at the wikipedia page below in my sources. There are many interesting things discussed there. You will find that the average public is largely ignorant to most of this information. You may even have a new perspective on life and the universe after you have researched this subject, I know that I do. Hope that this helps! Happy reading.
2007-03-13 21:27:49 · answer #1 · answered by Cameron P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are describing is the creation of the universe. Scientists tend to use the big bang theory to describe how things all started. One of the problems though, is that we CANNOT know what existed before the big bang so scientists have no answer. Some may say God, others may say there was another universe that just collapsed, etc. I don't get what being agnostic would have to do with this question though. If the generally accepted answer was, God, scientists would also admit that it can't be proved which is something an agnostic would agree with. Do you perhaps mean atheist? Anyway, you can find more info about how science treats the beginning of the universe here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang_theory
If you want to go even further back in time, it stops being a matter of science and starts being a matter of philsophy.
2007-03-13 20:26:49 · answer #2 · answered by Archknight 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, I saw that too, but some time ago. You have to remember that all this are just a bunch of feeble theories (sadly) that fits the data we have until now. This data suggest a Big-Bang, but how, why or what started the Big-Bang is still a mystery. Big-Bang probably destroyed every thing what was before it or it actually marked the start of this universe.
Maybe we are in a laboratory created universe. But trying to understand "the origins" is like a bacteria trying to understand what you read few years ago.
And God is probable true... I see no reason not to be. If something is possible than it sure exist.
2007-03-13 20:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by bily7001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Universe creates it's own space, thats the wonderful thing about our universe.
As far as how it got started, we will never know, we don't have and will never have the technology to find out what happened before the big bang.
And of course the easy way out is that "God created it" But come on.
I think if you are truly interested in these questions, you must obtain more and more knowledge. Read books on M Theory and superstring theory. It's a fascinating place we are apart of and I don't think in this lifetime you will ever get an answer you are looking for.
2007-03-13 20:16:34 · answer #4 · answered by Joshua T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since gravity constitutes a kind of negative energy (positive energy is required to move objects out of a gravitational well), its considered a valid scientific possibility that the sum total of all in our universe is a big fat zero. So, the act of creation may not have required any mass/energy feedstock as it were, just a really clever way of making something from nothing. So your original maxim may be flawed.
2007-03-13 21:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by SAN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm Roman Catholic (& Agnostic especially circumstances) yet, the only element i'm Agnostic approximately Is Hell & Demons using fact, i'm puzzled approximately Wether If I ought to have confidence In Hell & Demons Or no longer
2016-11-25 19:06:24 · answer #6 · answered by ussery 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another question is what contains the Universe. It is constantly expanding, but to where?
2007-03-13 20:00:36 · answer #7 · answered by flibbits 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And the dyslexic agnostic asks, "Is there a Dog?"
2007-03-13 23:02:06 · answer #8 · answered by Bob G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋