[SkyDancer]

My question on that Big Bang theory is where did those atoms or whatever it was come from before they blew up?

[UCANSEE2]

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin ?

[varon]

Can Quantum Mechanics Produce a Universe from Nothing?

Yes! If the Federal Reserve can produce money from nothing then Quantum Mechanics surely can produce a Universe...............

[NonValueAdded]

That’s it! I am opening up an automobile repair shop and naming it Quantum Mechanics!

[I want the USA back]

No. Quantum mechanics is not an object, and is not energy. It’s a set of rules that attempt to describe how matter and energy act under certain conditions.

“nothing” can’t do anything. Nothing is a convenient word used to talk about the absence of something. Like “dark” or “cold” or “space.”

Where/when there is no matter and no energy, it is ludicrous to talk about “nothing” causing “something.”
Unless the speaker is a scientist hell bent on disproving that the universe’s cause is external to itself.

[zencycler]

Can Quantum Mechanics Produce a Universe from Nothing?

There is some evidence that this may be possible. Consider the equivalent which we sometime witness in the natural world, in which productive energy, rational thought, and conservative principals are brought into existence from within an organic shell which once contained nothing but a Liberal.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is an interesting take on this in Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism going way back.

They said that the purpose for the universe is that God had a question He could not answer: Is there anything *not* God?

So God decided to create the universe as a mirror of His image. To do this, God created a “contraction”, a vacuum, in which there was no God. Into the center of this vacuum, God sent a very complicated “bolt of lightning”, which created a single particle in the center of the contraction.

The particle was to continually replicate until it had made the entire universe. Once complete, God will look upon it, answer His question, and the universe will cease to exist, the contraction with vanish, and everything will become part of God again.

[MortMan]

No. One must have legos, an erector set, and at least a 12 pack of good beer...

[ctdonath2]

It’s like current federal monetary policy: the Federal Reserve writes a big $0 in their ledger to acknowledge they have nothing, then write -$1,000,000,000,000 in the Liabilities column and $1,000,000,000,000 in the Assets column, then loan the newfound assets out, lots of economic activity ensues, eventually they get their $1,000,000,000,000 back (takes a long time), add the two columns together again, write $0 in both, and a whole lot happened between nothing and nothing.

[VideoDoctor]

Can Quantum Mechanics Produce a Universe from Nothing?

As surely as the FED can produce a HEALTHY ECONOMY by printing money and buying bonds and t-bills. /s

[RockyMtnMan]

God used quantum mechanics to create the universe after he created the universe.

[ZX12R]

The question in the title of the article seems funky, and no, I didn't read the article. LOL

It seems to me that QM cannot create anything other than the mathematical answer to a question about the probable behavior of sub atomic particles (if that's what they are).

The behavior of mass and energy (and whatever else there may be) are what they are, and there may not even be a deep reality there to understand. QM is not something present from the beginning of the universe. It is merely our best mental tool for explaining certain things right now. A mental tool that may be discarded some day in the future.

Oh yes, it all makes perfect sense to me...not.

[eddie willers]

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.

You can stop reading right there. "We can't explain it, so it must be God".

Cue the picture of the wild haired guy saying, "Aliens".

[Excellence]

For tomorrow.

[windcliff]

ping