Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: Stefan
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: Stefan
Originally posted by: fredtam
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Still reaching for ANY kind of a halfway plausible beginning for evolutionary theory I see. Now scientists are asking you to "just believe". And you people think Christians are sheep. :roll:
Whether god or science there is originally nothing. The universe at the time is nothing. Vacuum fluctuations somehow cause explosion. Matter wins out. We ask questions like this. Nuke ourselves. Universe dies a cold death. Everything decays. We are back to nothing.
I think one of the biggest problems is that humans cannot comprehend "nothing". Our laws of the universe dont allow matter to be created or destroyed, it just has to be there. Our laws don't allow for "the moment before the beginning of time" and the idea of nothingness.
I think "our laws" may not be the universe's. Protons may decay, vacuums exist, and time is indeed imaginary. Our universe has always existed it just changes forms. Nothing, somethin, nothing......
Well, we can only try to find ways to refine our laws, cause that's all we have to work with
Now you have to wonder about that Nothing -> Something -> Nothing idea... If it was really "nothing", then how was something created?
I can imagine it as something like a half full water balloon. If you hold it upright, all the water flows to the bottom. The top now has "nothing". If you flip it over, the top has "something" and the bottom has "nothing". If you applied that to the universe, you could guess that matter may be disappearing (to a place we dont know of), and our universe would have "nothing". That matter still went somewhere though, so in the big picture it isn't really "nothing".
Matter is here for one reason. Not enough antimatter. I am definately not a physicist but particles briefly pop into existence all the time. They come from "nothing" only to be cancelled out by the anti. Imbalance is why we are here and I have no doubt that the universe will again achieve balance and be "nothing".
First thing on google
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec17.html
Well, in terms that most of us can understand, matters do pop into existence, and so do anti matters, therefore canceling each other out. In the case of black holes, when these pair come close enough, and one of the element got sucked into the black hole (crossing event horizon), the remaining matter got ejected, and float back to the horizon of the universe, wherever that might be.
As for time goes, I don't exactly remember the details, but basically, the universe could very well be bouncing back from the "big bang" into a big crunch, and once again, nothingness. But, our current law, as stated, doesn't allow for something to be created out of nothingness, hence the theory of imaginary time.