The Big Bang: How Could Something Come From Nothing?

Sci Tech Daily ^ | 01/19/22 | ALASTAIR WILSON

[Kid Shelleen]

“The last star will slowly cool and fade away. With its passing, the universe will become once more a void, without light or life or meaning.” So warned the physicist Brian Cox in the recent BBC series Universe. The fading of that last star will only be the beginning of an infinitely long, dark epoch. All matter will eventually be consumed by monstrous black holes, which in their turn will evaporate away into the dimmest glimmers of light. Space will expand ever outwards until even that dim light becomes too spread out to interact. Activity will cease.

Or will it? Strangely enough, some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang.

[Kid Shelleen]

Above my pay grade but very interesting.

[Kid Shelleen]

Anyone who likes this article will love BBC's Universe.

Universe - BBC

[joe fonebone]

So, in the beginning there was nothing....
Then it exploded?

[WMarshal]

This makes about as much sense as Earth being the center of the universe. The idea that something can start from nothing in and has nothing without a repeating pattern is ludicrous.

[Kid Shelleen]

Yes; that is what the experts tell us and it’s settled science (for now).

[Migraine]

The spacetime vacuum state is seething with particles constantly being created and destroyed, apparently “out of nothing”. But perhaps all this really tells us is that the quantum vacuum is (despite its name) a something rather than a nothing.

If Albert criticized this vacuous assertion, then I'm with him, I think.

But as to the "How Did Something Come Out of Nothing?" query I say: same way rocks can turn into people.

[glennaro]

At least they admit that modern science cannot describe the physical state of the universe prior to the Planck Density era; a tacit acknowledgement of Creation

[fishtank]

But “dark matter “ is still undefined…

[GreenHornet]

The Big Bang happened shortly after the Big Dinner and a couple of drinks.

[AndyTheBear]

Its worth noting the father of the Big Bang the big bang theory was a Jesuit Priest, and that for many years it was dismissed by some as being a far fetched God centered explanation probably too influenced by religion to be taken seriously. That always seems to be forgotten these days. But if you think about it, it makes sense. The one thing Materialsm/Atheism implies about the nature of the universe above all else was that it was not created but had simply always existed and always would exist and that there was noting beyond it. That the universe was the basis of all reality. The alternative hypothesis was God (or other super natural cause) created the universe. Thus when a Jesuot Preist proposed that Cosmological evidence for expansion pointed to a moment of creation, Athiests of course were inclined to disagree since it contradicted their philosophy. These days some Athiesrs are trying to piece together the shreds of what science had done to their belief system by speculating that beyond the universe itself is just more of the same in a larger invisible system like the multiverse etc.

[Hot Tabasco]

The question I’ve always had is where did God come from.

[V_TWIN]

I’m no expert in apologetics but from what little I have studied it’s impossible.

[Openurmind]

“This makes about as much sense as Earth being the center of the universe. The idea that something can start from nothing in and has nothing without a repeating pattern is ludicrous.”

Exactly, because there are more universes out there that came before us. We were seeded, spawned.

[bert]

Accretion and accretion and accretion until the energy could no longer be contained and the accreted mass exploded with a force the gravity could not resist

[silverleaf]

Then… someone will light a match?

[Kid Shelleen]

>> The Big Bang happened shortly after the Big Dinner and a couple of drinks. <<

And then came the Big Cigarette.

[aspasia]

So you see, something is eternal. Can’t think it away.

[MayflowerMadam]

Like when God told that guy, “Get your own dirt.”

[wbarmy]

These are distinctively metaphysical ideas which have been explored by philosophers of science extensively, especially in the context of quantum gravity where ordinary cause and effect seem to break down. At the limits of our knowledge, physics and philosophy become hard to disentangle.

This is the payline. The author or physicist is changing the meaning of the equation and adding metaphysical to the explanation. Adding the metaphysical puts creation by intelligent design right back into play. When your equation HAS to have the word metaphysical, you are playing on the same team as the creationists. (And I am a Creationist)

[IYAS9YAS]

Exactly, because there are more universes out there that came before us. We were seeded, spawned.

But where did the first of these universes come from? And why?