How can nothingness produce mass and energy ?
If you must revert to a magic eye-in-the-sky, (like a Flying Spagetti Monster, God, Easter Bunny, or the Invisable Pink Unicorn, etc.), then what produced that deity ?
Please at least try to use facts, please...
2007-10-22 14:55:44 · 6 answers · asked by Jesus H. Zeitgeist 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Chance... isn't that just ducking out ?
It may be irrellevent to the future of our species, but then again... maybe not !
Prof.... umm... how does our global physics, in reverse order, dictate universal physics ???
Is there a natural presence of anti-gravity within our atmosphere ?
Is there a measurable molicule at the earths core, or is that a reverse gravity ?
I dont understand why time must stop just because there was a BB... time existed before you/we became self-aware... and we have DNA to prove we didn't just appear... there was mass (in human form).
The next approaching seconds - momentum, right ?
Gravity may be a clue, but that means that mass/substance in some form existed in order to go bang, right? ... and with that, therefore time.
2007-10-22 17:38:25 · update #1
Doug... that kinda contradicts itself... 'nothing' is a symptom, not a 'cause'... there must be something in order for there to be a cause...the same laws of logic that revealed the BB would apply before it as well... I know it's a mystery, but we will never get anywhere if we duck it... we figured out the BB, didn't we ? (ok, I may not qualify as part of the 'we' that did that, but heck, even a neanderthal can stumble into creating a wheel, and a monkey; stacking.)
2007-10-22 17:54:21 · update #2
Doug... PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE watch part 1 of this movie at http://zeitgeistmovie.com/ ... that is all, that is much much more than enough for now (record it if you ca, because it gets a little tight in spots and you will want to rewind it and replay it time and time again, best wishes for you)... also, regardless of any 'human' concept of a trinity, Science AND religion can neither prove or disprove a 'god' or the origins of the institutions of time and space. There is no proof that this is the only Big Bang, and that a 'god' could not in turn be born of previous gods, however both science and religion try to gravitate focus away from a paralell for many reasons, some pure, some not so pure...
2007-10-26 10:49:47 · update #3
OOPS !!! above comment, 2nd response to Doug was meant for HENRY !!!
2007-10-26 10:51:45 · update #4
HENRY... 2nd response above to Doug was meant for you...
2007-10-26 11:23:19 · update #5
Dr.R... Thank you for clarifying that just because time isn't 'defined' before the BB, doen't mean it couldn't exist (that's what I needed), and for humbly reminding me that mass is a form of energy... and for the walkabout regarding nothingness....
2007-10-26 11:43:55 · update #6
How can nothingness produce mass and energy ?
It can't.
What are the two great pillars of science?
Cause and Effect.
Every scientist is well aware that even if an entire universe could come into existence out of nothing, it wouldn't do it for no reason.
Cause and Effect.
Clearly, something else was going on before the big bang.
Cause and Effect.
I understand all the arguments about time being created at the time of the big bang, and I don't disagree, but God isn't stuck in time like you and me, and He's not limited by it.
By the way, I thought everyone gave good answers.
2007-10-29 10:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by farwallronny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is not defined before the BB, based on General Relativity's global metric, but let's not quibble with how your question is phrased. Mass is a form of energy. Some other forms of energy (like gravitational) are negative. A universe erupting from no thing, no where, and no when does not violate the laws of physics if its net energy (and every other conserved property) is zero. That doesn't explain it, but it does mean it can happen. And things that can happen usually do.
Technically, a universe *with* net energy doesn't violate the known laws of physics either, but it would be ... um ... inelegant.
2007-10-22 22:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The phrase "before the Big Bang" is incoherent, in exactly the same way as "North of the North Pole" is incoherent. There was no "before." Time started with the Big Bang. It doesn't go farther back than that.
2007-10-22 22:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. And neither does anybody else. There are a few hypotheses, but I don't see how they wil ever be testable.
No, it isn't just ducking out. If something isn't testable, it isn't science, it's just philosophy. Maybe i'm wrong and these hypotheses are testable, but nothing I have read explains how, even in principle.
2007-10-22 22:03:23 · answer #4 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As far as we know, nothing happened before the 'Big Bang'. As for what caused the 'Big Bang', that's one science is still trying to figure out.
Doug
2007-10-22 22:11:40 · answer #5 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
dude....... God created EVERYTHING and i'm sayin EVERY FRIGGIN THING even the stuff that is inside them black holes..... he created everything in his own glory and that's our job to glorify him if your atheist then just do this...... go buy a bible. read it. go to church. and so when you die you'll have nothing to lose (according to what you believe) and if it is real (according to you) then you'll go to heaven where you will live until the rest of ever. now idk about you but that sounds pretty cool to me. just one little book and goin to church on sundays may save you for the rest of eternity...... i'm serious
2007-10-22 22:12:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋