Is it possible to create something out of nothing at all?

Answer 1

We can create music, poetry and books out of ideas, but even these need the paper they are printed on or the instruments on which to play them. Only God can create something out of nothing.

Answer 2

Apparently so. Picture a vast field of infinite potential energy, where at any given location the energy is zero. However, in this infinite scalar field, given the reality of quantum indeterminacy, the fluctuation of that energy field achieves a virtual imbalance. All of a sudden, there is an inequality in a false vacuum that causes potential energy to unfurl in three dimensions, four if you include the inception of time at the so-called unfurling. Moreover, six other dimensions curl up smaller than the Planck length into Kalabi-Yau shapes that determine, through the vibrational energy of one-dimensional strings, the properties of the quark, the electron, and the photon, leading to the high energy physics of the Big Bang. Mind you, "Big Bang" is a derogatory misnomer given by those that insisted on a static universe. The universe is not static, it is expanding. No Big Bang theorist claims that anything "banged" or that it was "big." But the high energy physics that followed that event can be traced down to a nanofraction of a second. To be precise, down to 10 to the minus 35th of second. That is how close high energy physics can come to understanding the quark soup at the instant of time. Google CMB radiation and go from there.

Thanks for the question.

This is a partial answer to your unanswerable question. I just thought it might be a bit more interesting than "God did it."

Answer 3

Yes, quantum theory allows this, as long as all the conserved quantities like charge, momentum, and energy add to zero. Basically it would have to "borrow" its existence from the vacuum and separate itself into different parts which individually have positive or negative energy (some forms of energy, like gravitational potential, are negative), but taken as a whole add up to zero. And, like any debt, it would have to return to "nothing" (more accurately, the vacuum) after a finite period of time. Examples are virtual particles and the universe itself. That's right; we're all living on borrowed time.

Answer 4

The First Law of Thermodynamics says that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Answer 5

It's very possible to create something out of nothing.
Example; every thing's going downhill, you feel you have nothing in your life & don't expect to ever have anything.
Then, from nothing, you start thinking about how much you are blessed with. Therefore you have created something (new) for yourself, instead of that 'nothing' that you had before.
It's not tangible, I know. (corney but so true). :)

Answer 6

Nothing is the absence of Something.
There are no absolute answers to an analytical question...fuzzy logic dictates us to think abstract in an analytical way, to resolve problems like this. The answer is yes..nothing is something !! Jim

Answer 7

what about a good idea, a poem, a writing, a story, in general intellectual concepts can be created out of nothing as you are asking in your question

Answer 8

That sounds like a philosophy question or a song title, and I think the answers you get will be along those lines, but, good luck.

Answer 9

yes, thought is a good example. what are thoughts, where do they come from and where do they go? the mind seems to be as small as a cabbage physically but as huge as the universe metaphysically. it can store everything we see, and stuff we consciously think we havent seen. it can create whole new worlds in which we go to when we dream. its like a computer, but computers are fed info, and so maybe the brain is, but not in the way i can think. so, thought, to me anyway, seems to be produced from nowhere

Answer 10

Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, but transformed from one state to another - Its one of Newtons Laws, so I would have to say no.