(April 27, 2022 at 4:47 pm)JairCrawford Wrote:(April 27, 2022 at 4:42 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: It is likely that the amount of matter and kinetic energy is exactly balanced by the amount of negative gravitational potential energy. That is, they add to zero.
So in essence everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Is this at all related to the whole matter/anti-matter thing?
No, it is not related to antimatter. Both an matter and antimatter have mass, and are therefore mass-energy. If they annihilate, they create energy (not nothing).
The fact that the early universe produced more matter than antimatter is a mystery. There must be some breaking of symmetry that caused this. If it weren't for symmetry breaking, literally nothing interesting would exist. Symmetry breaking is seen a number of places in physics.
