(September 19, 2016 at 5:12 am)fdesilva Wrote:(September 19, 2016 at 4:53 am)Mathilda Wrote: Two points here. First you are equivocating with the word 'cause'. This always assumes that something acts upon something else, but what causes the weather for example? There is more explanatory power in understanding it as a self organising system in which matter rearranges itself due to the flow of energy.
Secondly, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, there is no need to invoke anything else. We can explain in more or less detail how energy led to matter and how complexity has grown since the Big Bang.
The law of conservation of energy, that is all laws of physics, all energy all space and all time came into existence at this event the big bang. So energy did get created at the big bang
We don't know that. All we know is that all the energy in the universe was in a particular state at the Big Bang. The universe may have been in a completely different state beforehand. The universe may be cyclical, contracting and expanding. It may be that this universe was created when a star went supernovae, created a black hole all it's energy got sucked into a really small point and created a new bubble. Fact is, no one knows.
