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How can the word come into existance without a creator? read description.?
"One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create from nothing." -Werner Erhard
The universe is not all there is beyond what we know. It started in the big bang theory from the singularity of a point the size of a pin head. It is unknown what surrounded this pin head or what is beyond it now at its current size. There may be many other universes as ours, which continues to grow, has the bigbang theory reached a standstill? time to test out other theories? other wise it just becomes an infinite loop of something coming from something with out ever really getting to the beginning, in which something would have had to become something out of nothing
Scientifically speaking is is it possible from something to come from nothing? if the answer is no then the universe does have a creator . if the answer is yes can you explain how?
just answer the question, if you don't know the answer just ignore the question. just because you are getting thumbs up doesn't mean your answer is right or relevant at all. the only thing that answer accomplished is to satisfy your ego. usless.
This question has nothing to do with God, how paranoid are you people.
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
I don't think that using a (metaphorical) quote from Werner is a useful method of addressing what is really a physics question.
It used to be that science couldn't answer the question about the origin of the universe or of the Big Bang, but that didn't mean we should make up an answer (such as a god) and say that it was the cause. Within the last few decades science has discovered some good answers.
Quantum mechanics shows that "nothing," as a philosophical concept, does not exist. There is always a quantum field with random fluctuations.
There are many well-respected physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Sean M. Carroll, Victor Stenger, Michio Kaku, Alan Guth, Alex Vilenkin, Robert A.J. Matthews, and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, who have created scientific models where the Big Bang and thus the entire universe could arise from nothing but a quantum vacuum fluctuation in the quantum field -- via natural processes.
In relativity, gravity is negative energy, and matter and photons are positive energy. Because negative and positive energy seem to be equal in absolute total value, our observable universe appears balanced to the sum of zero. Our universe could thus have come into existence without violating conservation of mass and energy — with the matter of the universe condensing out of the positive energy as the universe cooled, and gravity created from the negative energy. When energy condenses into matter, equal parts of matter and antimatter are created — which annihilate each other to form energy. However there is a slight imbalance to the process, which results in matter dominating over antimatter.
I know that this doesn't make sense in our Newtonian experience, but it does in the realm of quantum mechanics and relativity. As Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman wrote, "The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as she is — absurd."
For more, watch the video at the 1st link - "A Universe From Nothing" by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, read an interview with him (at the 2nd link), get his new book (at the 3rd link), or read an excerpt from his book (at the 4th link).
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Here is an accesssible explanation of how things can come from nothing and do all the time.
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/02/02...
However, it is usually theists who claim the universe came from nothing. First a fully formed superbeing appeared from nothing and then he created the universe from nothing. The Big Bang theory does not suggest the universe came from nothing tho it could have done. We do not know the origins of all matter yet tho some hypotheses are well supported but there is no sign of any god. The universe was a big swirling mess which gradually formed some order due to gravitational pulls and our planet formed life because it had water and a sun - both water and suns are very common in space. Natural processes forming a mess does not really indicate a creator and the creator itself - a fully formed superbeing? would be very unlikely to just appear. Or do you believe he evolved to be a superbeing?
- Anonymous9 years ago
> Scientifically speaking is is it possible from something to come from nothing?
Yes. Quantum mechanics allows for something to come from nothing. Most notably in my mind is String theory, but there are other theories.
> if the answer is no then the universe does have a creator
So if something cannot come from nothing, where does the creator come from? And if something cannot come from nothing, how does the creator make something come from nothing? Completely illogical
> if the answer is yes can you explain how?
In laymen's terms, string theory says that you can have vibrations in the fabric of reality that harmonize to create something. I honestly don't understand all the details, but it's a theory that is supposedly mathematically sound.
More to the point, there's no evidence that there was nothing before the Big Bang. One theory suggests that our universe exists inside the black hole of another universe and each black hole in our universe is yet another universe. Mind=BLOWN
Anyway, just because we don't know how all of existence started does NOT mean "God did it"... it just means we are still ignorant.
- the internetLv 79 years ago
You are confused. You obviously did not yet understand what the "big bang" is. If you come up with a better theory, explain it to us.
The scientific answer is: We don't yet know why the big bang started. We have not found any hint of a creator or anything supernatural.
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- PyriformLv 79 years ago
"Scientifically speaking is is it possible from something to come from nothing?"
I don't know.
"if the answer is no then the universe does have a creator ."
Only if the universe came from nothing, which we do not know it did.
"if the answer is yes can you explain how?"
No. I can't explain how, just as you cannot explain how God came to be.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
Allow me to educate you. There are only three ingredients required to form a universe, they are space, matter, and energy all of which have always existed. It doesn't require a non-existent "god" to "create" and the very idea of some entity speaking the universe into existence is, at best, a silly concept.
Taoist/Atheist (realist)
- Unpatriotic PakiLv 49 years ago
"Scientifically speaking is is it possible from something to come from nothing?"
Yes. Read up on Quantum physics.
By the way the Big Bang theory doesn't claim that something came from nothing.
- Anonymous9 years ago
By the natural results of natural processes.
There is no scientific theory or fact or evidence, anywhere, that claims there was ever "nothing."
So not only is your rant a rather silly argument from ignorance and incredulity, it's also a dishonest straw-man.
Please go get some education.
Peace.
- Anonymous9 years ago
It's a red herring because whether or not there was a creator, there's no reason to suggest he wants us to do silly religious ceremonies or follow arbitrary rules or that he also bothered to create an afterlife.
- Acid ZebraLv 79 years ago
"is it possible from something to come from nothing?"
PLEASE stop pretending that this is the scientific view of the origin of this universe. It makes you look like a moron. Science at this point does not pretend to know, unlike god-believers.
"if the answer is no then the universe does have a creator"
Does not follow. And making stuff up about all-powerful beings creating stuff from nothing is just dumb. God of the gaps is just a terrible argument. "I don't know, therefore magic".
Source(s): "if the answer is no then the universe does have a creator" "This question has nothing to do with God" HURR DURR