Can nothing come out of nothing?

Question

Ok, this is related to the age-old question of how this Universe began. Nowadays, we have the Big-Bang theory, the Unified Field Theory and all the Grand Unified Field Theories to explain how this Universe evolved from the Big Bang. But isn't there Conversation of Mass and Conversation of Energy. Then what came before the Big Bang. Did it all just sprouted from nothing. Or is it eternal- no beginning no end. And let's say the Creator created everything. Who created Him? Could He create Himself? And the most puzzling of all, Why does SOMETHING exist in the first place instead of NOTHING at all? I mean, Why something and not nothing?

Well, let's say it resulted in the collapse of the Higgs field. But where did the energy come from? Is energy eternal since it can neither be destroyed nor created. By the way, I'm just curious but have they already discovered the Higgs particle.

And yeah, let's say this computer in front of me is just an illusion. But an illusion is still something, I believe and not complete nothingness.

When I said "something", as opposed to "nothing", I meant anything and everyhting that can possibly exist: If we were talking about Plato, that would include both the material world and the world of ideas.

Answer 1

Indeed, if we were to believe in the conservation of energy and mass, one would have to conclude that it is all a Continuum, where there has been no beginning nor there will be an end..... and the constancy of change is what gives us an illusion of any beginning or end, because every change signifies an end to something and a beginning of something else.

If we believe in a beginning, then the origin becomes impossible for us to understand, because whatever is believed to be the origin (eg Big Bang or God), the question still remains how that origin came to be in the first place. Therefore, this logic takes us to an apparently ridiculous possibility of everything having come out of nothing. Having thought through this proposition, I have recently realized that it may not be so ridiculous after all... on the contrary, it does seem to be a plausible explanation! Can we not mathematically break-up zero into several pluses and minuses so that the sum total of all those pluses and minuses cancels out to zero?

If everything has come out from nothing in that fashion, then it does fit in with what we see today..... there seems to be opposites all around... any change that happens does seem to create a balance, meaning a sort of zero-sum impact.... the cause and effect principle does seem to arise from a dynamic balance being achieved or in other words the cause and effect do seem to cancel out to zero-sum. I have now begun to believe that I can not totally rule out the possibility of everything having come out of nothing and perhaps should end up also into nothing. In this context, the latest concepts of anti-matter, zero-mass or vacuum energy etc. also seem to fit in.

Hope you'll find some sense in the above blabbering... in any case, all of us are in the dark and who knows when if at all we would be wiser on these genesis issues?

Answer 2

Even in empty vacuum, there is a certain level of energy. This energy is inherent in space itself. According to Inflationary theory, which is far and away the best explanation we have for the beginning of the universe, the big bang was the result of the collapse of something called the Higgs field. Pre-big bang, the vacuum energy of space was enormously larger. When the field collapsed, much of this energy was converted into radiation energy, thus creating the matter & energy within our universe.

As for creator gods: the older I get and the more science I study, the more obvious it seems to me that gods are nothing more than the invention of primitive men to explain that which they could not have figured out before the age of science. I think Carl Sagan had it about right when he described the bible as "half fairy tale, half barbarian history."

Answer 3

Big Bang theory is true, creator himself says that he created this all with a big bang, before big bang it was all Smokey, the earth and sky. Regarding creator that who created him is even not a question, according to logic when an unlimited power exists no other unlimited power can exist, creator himself is unlimited, out of thoughts only he himself knows the reality of origin of nothing or something.

Answer 4

it incredibly is a pretend dichotomy. definitely what's inaccurate with "we do only no longer understand"? Why is that so damned complicated for you human beings? you will possibly quite invent a mystical writer, quite than admit which you only do no longer understand how the universe have been given here? Now there are particular concepts in theoretical physics which do purport to describe the beginning place of the universe (string thought is the nicely accepted one) yet for the 2nd they're nonetheless theoretical. yet all you have mentioned is that because of fact the main amazing physicists on earth have not have been given any figured it out yet, we could desire to continually only supply up, assume technology won't in any respect answer the question, and have confidence magical fairy achieved it. that's what god is, a mystical being. In Genesis, god speaks the universe into existence. You do realize it incredibly is the definition of an incantation spell, actual? that's what you're implying you have confidence, which you have confidence in magic. That the universe became created via magic. I on the different hand admit that the respond is presently previous the reducing area in particle physics, and carry that hopefully destiny Nobel prize winners will parent it out. and that i assure you it is going to likely be ten billion cases extra thrilling than "enable there be gentle".

Answer 5

Nothing comes from nothing. We know what these words mean. It's not complicated.

Are you talking about the physical universe, or other planes as well? Or, are you really referring to reality, or existence? The scope of your question is not clear.

But that aside, an analogy might help you with the rest. Consider the idea of infinity. We take it to mean time stretching in both directions forever. But Aristotle had a different idea about it. For him, it meant outside of time; not a timeline with no ends, but not part of the line at all.

Now, we're talking about the physical universe, or reality, something vs nothing, or whatever. Let's say we're talking about everything vs nothing. Everything vs. nothing is like our typical notion of infinity, past and future stretching both ways forever, such that that they are opposite poles on some scale. But what if "before the Big Bang" refers to a state of affairs that is the analog of Aristotle's view of infinity, i.e. not related to "everything vs. nothing" at all?

Word plays often get in the way. We know what we mean when we say nothing comes form nothing. It's meaningful language lexically, syntactically, and semantically..

Answer 6

God created the Universe from "nothing".Science will never prove a non created universe .When one theory is not resolved science comes up with another theory and when that theory dose not look like being solved another one takes its place .This will go on forever until science admits the possibility of a Creator, even if they label it a theory.

Answer 7

Aken, a few months ago i read that scientist doing tests at near zero vacuum, observed,in a sealed container, "something" appeared from nothing.

Answer 8

How do we know it's not nothing? All these particles that are joined together to create the computer screen you're looking at - how do you know it's there? How do you know it's not nothing, you just perceive it as something?

Answer 9

Well, if nothing is nothing, nothing must be something. So therefore some nothings, maybe be somethings to someone and vice versa.

Answer 10

Nothing is notexisting. Someting s there to make it nothing