Posted on 07/18/2013 10:36:09 AM PDT by kimtom
According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, nothing in the Universe (i.e., matter or energy) can pop into existence from nothing (see Miller, 2013). All of the scientific evidence points to that conclusion. So, the Universe could not have popped into existence before the alleged “big bang” (an event which we do not endorse). Therefore, God must have created the Universe.
One of the popular rebuttals by the atheistic community is that quantum mechanics could have created the Universe. In 1905, Albert Einstein proposed the idea of mass-energy equivalence, resulting in the famous equation, E = mc2 (1905). We now know that matter can be converted to energy, and vice versa. However, energy and mass are conserved, in keeping with the First Law. In the words of the famous evolutionary astronomer, Robert Jastrow, “[T]he principle of the conservation of matter and energy…states that matter and energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Matter can be converted into energy, and vice versa, but the total amount of all matter and energy in the Universe must remain unchanged forever” (1977, p. 32). The idea of matter-energy conversion led one physicist to postulate, in essence, that the cosmic egg that exploded billions of years ago in the alleged “big bang”—commencing the “creation” of the Universe—could have come into existence as an energy-to-matter conversion.
In 1973, physicist Edward Tryon of the Hunter College of the City University of New York published a paper in the British science journal Nature titled, “Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation?” He proposed the idea that the Universe could be a large scale ........
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Nope.
E = mc2. The matter and antimatter have mass and in order to conserve the energy in their masses gamma rays are created when they annihilate.
Um, can you explain how such a low entropy state could exist, much less begin increasing without an impetus?
I must be older than you. I’m hearing, “Life is but a dream, sh-boom...”
Stranger things have happened! (Well, in this case actually they haven't! :O )
I like the street scientist’s explanation: Vacuum energy is not nothin’.
“””..I also think that the basis of consciousness is hidden in one or more of those dimensions....”
ummm?
Can we understand the mind of God??
The Casimir effect arises because of vacuum state energy which is indeed the focus of this article. You are mistaken and the original poster is correct. Since this is quite well established, I’ll expect a citation as a rebuttal (and not from a religious website.)
I don’t think you’re refuting what he was saying. You’re just taking a wave view instead of a particle view of the Casimir Effect.
Who created God?
That explanation doesn’t necessarily apply, because pair production doesn’t just involve virtual particles; there is annihilation even in cases where no vacuum state is involved...
My question on that Big Bang theory is where did those atoms or whatever it was come from before they blew up?
True or Jest? Either way, very clever.
If something exists, the question of whether quantum mechanics could have created the something from a nothing is just the sort of arrogant question haters of religion think represent their intellect.
What causes the Casimir effect? The proximity of the plates being charged excludes certain wave lengths which in turn 'push' upon the outer surfaces of the plates?
For there to be wavelengths, time must exist. Before the 'bang' time nor space exited. Time and Space were made to exist, then events started occurring and things started to exist, even your arrogant self.
A fellow Hitchhiker!
The CONTENTS of this Universe, yes, will have changed into another form. Infinite space and infinite time cannot change, never began, cannot end.
Who created God?
God never began, does not change, cannot end. Only that which is subject to finite begin, change, end.
“..This is not a scientific article..”
Why is it when your beliefs are challenged you feel threatened???
or maybe that’s just my opinion...
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin ?
“...How many angels can dance on the head of a pin ?...”
why would they do that?
Yes! If the Federal Reserve can produce money from nothing then Quantum Mechanics surely can produce a Universe...............
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