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To: VadeRetro
The total energy of the universe may well be zero. How's that sound?

Like a statement of faith.

761 posted on 04/07/2002 12:43:58 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
Like a statement of faith.

There's again a line of argument that says the total energy of the universe may well be zero. It isn't evolutionary logic, but it's scientific logic.

767 posted on 04/07/2002 12:59:43 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Tribune7
From Inflation for Beginners:

George Gamow told in his book My World Line (Viking, New York, reprinted 1970) how he was having a conversation with Albert Einstein while walking through Princeton in the 1940s. Gamow casually mentioned that one of his colleagues had pointed out to him that according to Einstein's equations a star could be created out of nothing at all, because its negative gravitational energy precisely cancels out its positive mass energy. "Einstein stopped in his tracks," says Gamow, "and, since we were crossing a street, several cars had to stop to avoid running us down".

770 posted on 04/07/2002 1:16:22 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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