how can something come from nothing?

Question

how can we rationally explain that our universe came about from a random explosion of nothing? how can something just be there all of sudden when it wasn't there before? i am not saying it's incorrect, i'd just like some opinions?

Answer 1

Only if the net energy is zero. For example, you can have virtual particles or Hawking radiation that appear from nothing. One particle is matter and the other is anti-matter. The two, together, still represent zero energy. It is interesting to note that measurements of the universe show that the matter and other positive energy of the universe nearly exactly match the negative gravatational potential of the universe, so its energy is also a net zero. So, it is possible that the universe came from nothing.

However, nobody is saying that the universe came from nothing. We have no knowledge of what was before this universe, or even if there was a before. This universe could have come from nothing, or it might be part of a larger multiverse, or it might be something we haven't even conceived of yet. We just don't know anything about that, though we are starting to make some good guesses based on what we've seen in this universe.

Answer 2

It wasn't a random explosion of nothing. The Big Bang theory didn't attempt to explain what caused the explosion only why EVERYTHING in the universe is moving away from a central location is space (just like it would have if there had been a BIG explosion). Read up on the work mathematicians are doing on M theory..........and no it is not magic theory.

At some point you'll have to accept that we don't know everything but we're working on it. "I don't know" is an acceptable answer but "god did it" isn't. This is because "god did it" stops all questioning and research while "I don't know" encourages us to question.

Answer 3

The thing is, we don't know what was there before the big bang. My own thought on the matter (and I am not a scientist, so if you are and can give me some reason as to why I am wrong, please let me know) is this...

what if the universe just expands to a certain point, and then collapses upon itself, with all the matter contained therein being drawn in to some sort of super black hole. When it reaches a critical point, where it cannot get any smaller, it just explodes (a.k.a. big bang), and then expands out, thus begining the cycle again.

Hey it may sound a little out there, but it seems slightly more plausible than a omnipresent being, playing puppet master.

Answer 4

That's not as rational as God (a being you can't even prove to exist) creating the universe from... you guessed it.. nothing... how?

Oh, and we can't even be certain that the universe came from nothing. We have no way to know what exactly how the universe began, if it did do so. It's a mystery that science hasn't even began to crack yet. So far, the Big-Bang theory is the most logical theory as to how the universe started, but even then there are plenty of holes that still need to be filled, and mysteries that still need to be solved. That's a great thing about science; there's always something new to learn.

Answer 5

A singularity isn't nothing. While scientists don't know exactly what it is, they think it is perhaps similar to a black hole.. a massive amount of matter condensed into the size of a dime.

Also, the current big bang theory does not suggest an explosion, but an expansion, which by the way is still happening today. It can be observed and measured, and it is a fact.

To be honest, when I think of something coming from nothing, I think of god. That, to me, defies logic.

Answer 6

This is an unanswerable question. How can something come from nothing? According the Bible nothing was actually there.

The Bible says that "God" stretched forth the heavens over and "empty" place and hung the earth on "nothing." But, then, science cant understand the earth hanging on nothing, so they have to place it on imaginary axis? Imagine that?

Everything in the physical world must have a foundation to build something upon.

What was the foundation of which creation was built upon?

This mankinds has not the answer for! As neither did Job, when the LORD asked him - Job 38:1-6;

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

You know, Job got to a point in his life that his righteousness, started to take a turn towards self-righteousness, and he started to question God, as many do today!

Notice the first question he was asked?

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Answer 7

I've heard a really interesting theory that's supposedly on the rise in the science community. Some guy said that our universe is actually inside a black hole of another world.

But I suppose that we couldn't really come from nothing. Besides, there isn't anything that I can think of that doesn't have a creator. Either you were created by your parents, intelligent life, or whatever created this universe which I think is more than just luck.

Answer 8

This is what's called a straw man argument. Rather than discussing your objections to ACTUAL cosmological theory, you construct this 'something from nothing' argument. No cosmologist ever said the universe came from nothing. They say that it came from a singularity, which is not nothing, but something. And a whole lot of something. So ask how something can come from something else. Doesn't seem so unbelievable now, does it? You need to understand that accepting science for what it is does not mean you can no longer accept religion for what IT is. Science and religion are not in conflict, as they seek to answer different questions about existence.

Answer 9

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

The Big Bang was not an explosion, more of an expansion. And it didn't come from nothing-it came from matter which was in a hot dense state. Hubble's law states that the universe is still expanding.