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"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing."?

I recently read this quote from Stephen Hawking and don't understand how this is so. Is there something about gravity which supports spontaneous creation? Could anyone elaborate?

Update:

I'm not sure everyone is understanding my question exactly. I realize we are talking about fringe science here and that this is all very hypothetical, but it seems to me that he is implying that because gravity exists as a force, this lends support to (not proves) the idea of spontaneous creation. I know Hawking's view on a creator, but this statement does not necessarily have to disclude a God. However, without getting into the debate of the existence of a supreme being, could anyone explain what it is about gravity in particular that would suggest this. Sources if you can please.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The origin of the components of the universe is unknown to science.

    Its origin has many interesting suggestions but no single one is complete and generally accepted by the scientific community.

    Stephen Hawking is greatly respected and his ideas are taken seriously.

    When reading his books and also news reports about him, one must be careful to not confuse his suggestions, hunches and intuition with his scientifically and mathematically proven discoveries.

    .

  • goring
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    The earth ,the moon,the sun and all celestial bodies all hang on something=they call it gravity.

    The singularity Also had to hang on something. Thus Gravity had to be created before any singularity would ever come into existence.That appears to make more logical sense. So the singularity floated in a fluid just like a fish floats on water.

    However; a singularity had to be made up of something ,Thus the singularity had to have a smaller singularity which would have been the mother of the singularity.

    Hence the Universe must be made up of a granular substance . If that is the case it would be the basic structure of Gravity.

    Thus for gravity to exist ,the structure of space must have restrains at its Boundary.

    Thus with the creation of the substance of space by its constriction , the gravity phenomenon would come into being along with the creation of Time.

    Thus the creation of the Universe is more complicated than the Big Bang theory' implies.

    Thus Basically it is actually the Biblical account of Creation which has given a more realistic description of how the Universe came into being.

    Source(s): The creation of gravity me own little brains
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Stephen Hawking is bitter at the thought of there being a God since he is crippled. I don't blame him. Being crippled like him would make me actively deny God, since I would not be able to understand why a "loving" God would let this happen to me.

    Anyways I wouldn't take that claim from him as fact. He has a reason for bias against a God (regardless of a personal God). That statement from him is deeply routed on a personal level with him. He's spent most of his life trying to answer that question of whether or no the universe can be created from nothing. He changed his position before. I still think he is unsure today.

    "I'm absolutely not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza’s pantheism, but admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things."

    -Albert Einstein

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I don't know why he thinks gravity is so fundamental, in the sense of creation. I'm sure Mr. Hawking could explain conceptually in terms of the Big Bang, an event which most scientists believe. He might be saying that gravity is the fundamental movement of empty space...in other words, matter, which consumes a bit of space brings about the other forces. So the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, displaces space and the energy of that unit of space, giving the proton a certain amount of charge, rest mass, and binding energy, and whatever other properties...)+_

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/step...

    LOL!! Well, the Guardian got that one wrong. Stephen Hawking did not create the the theory of the Big Bang. Georges Lemaitre did, in 1927.

    To get back on topic, think about this for awhile as an explanation.

    God made the laws of physics. God is physics and physics is God.

    You CAN break one of God's laws. but you CANNOT break or violate the laws of physics.

    I KNOW, I KNOW, PLEASE don't say it. Who or what created God? Mankind created God to explain unexplainable natural phenomena, coincidences, and those strange people over there with different colored skin and a weird culture who just might attack you, so you'd better attack them first.

    Before i make myself dizzy with circular thinking, Good night/morning

    Edit: Speaking as some one who has no clear memory at all of never being a type 1 diabetic, I know God is with me. If you believe in God, there is a purpose for whatever happens to you in life. I don't resent God because I had roseola in November, 1954, which is what caused my diabetes. God knew my mother had the background (3 semesters of medical school) to diagnose me and raise me until I could take care of myself as long as I had my father and had met a life-long friend who is my soul sister, and once my father died, God has watched over me. My soul sister is an M.D. and so is her husband. I survived and came out of a 6 week long induced coma, approved by my friend, for a reason. IF Stephen Hawking hasn't experienced anything in his life, such as still be alive many yeas later, that proves to him that God exists, that's probably OK with God. There are plenty of things that have happened to me that I cannot logically explain WITHOUT God. Sometimes the most obvious proof of God's existence is right there in plain site to some people, but others are completely blind to the obvious, because their attention, like Stephen Hawking's, is focused elsewhere.

    Don't presume that you understand how a handicapped person thinks when you are not handicapped yourself. I'm unique because of my diabetes. Being diabetic is part of my identity, and has been for very long time.

    Source(s): 5 months in a hospital and a nursing home. God does answer prayers, even very small ones, like a glass of ice you can reach melting into water while you are praying for water.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Time has two properties.

    Progress(related to evolution) and Event(related to Creation) by turns.

    and Probability exist between two properties.

    Mobius strip explains it very well. (one progress, one event, one probability)

    Look at this!

    Chicken (event) Egg (progress) & Egg (event) Chicken (progress)

    Schrodinger's cat was placed between one properties, just event. So, probability can not exist.

    The reason, Wave-particle duality of light. I think so...

    Progress / Event / Probability is a time. This is my trinity.

    --------------------------------------…

    Does time have the shape? Does soul have the shape?

    Everything has the shape but these two in the world.

    So, I made an assumption "Time is soul(thinking, knowledge, memory, etc.)".

    It was the beginning of my UNIONTERA.

    We know...

    To our great discouragement, these doesn't have one way by us.

    Time walked to science way. Soul walked to religion way.

    Light up candle for a second. A second of light exist permanently or not?

    --------------------------------------…

    Einstein deceive our world. Where is our common sense?

    I mean, why he didn't tell us this so easy common sense.

    The only base which can be the cause of Einstein's assumption...

    [Assumption] "principle of constancy of light velocity".

    [The only base] "Time of light is different from the starting point time."

    This base is not an assumption but a common sense. Can you see?

    In my opinion, he already knew this base.

    This common sense is a certain evidence for me.

    This is my uniontera.

    Existing is the time expressed by light itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1jTwHUC7E

    - Key Point -

    1. Arrow A is the laser work. (Same time work)

    2. Arrow B is the reason of gravity. (also, Higgs boson individually / Different time work)

    3. The rose line is the beginning light. (result from Bible)

    4. The existing of different time. (result from relativity of light)

    5. 2 dimension is not a space. (result from 2-axis, math)

    6. Universe came from nothing. (result from No.5 / cf. Playing with bubbles)

    6-1. A barrier[posititon] exist between the inner and outer bubbles. But universe do not have that barrier. (Cause of Inertia)

    7. Progress / Event / Probability is a time.

    8. Wave-particle duality of light (result from No.7)

    9. Coalescing of different time (Cause of Rotation)

    10. Your so-called black hole is a wholly condensed time. (cf. Kerr spacetime, math)

    11. The reason of "your so-called magnetic field" (result from step3 and 4)

    12. The reason of "your so-called electric field" (result from the crack of time / Same time's crack is a different time's coalescing. / Cause of Static electricity)

    13. Your so-called "space" is a crack of time. (result from No.12 / Cause of Lightning)

    14. Boundary is a crack of space. (result from No.13 / Same space's crack is a different time's contact. / cf. Fractal)

    15. Boundary is nothing. Your so-called hole is a boundary itself. Also, nothing is K=0 temperature. (result from No.14 / cf. Calabi-Yau Space, math)

    16. This is a wall of your so-called fire. (result from No.15) - copyright ⓒ uniontera

    Our nonsense came from one time. Uniontera is a KEY.

    English is not my first language, sorry!

    If it is difficult to understand, just remember "Hand touching everything is a time". This is the only one result of uniontera.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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