(October 24, 2022 at 9:04 am)polymath257 Wrote:(October 13, 2010 at 7:51 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: I think the vacant universe could easily be eternal; the universe is mostly empty space after all. People think of space and they think it's a "thing". It's not. It's the lack of things.
The things IN space are a different matter, like planets and stars. They would theoretically need to come into being somehow, so I doubt that matter is eternal. However, space itself is probably eternal in my opinion, considering that space IS nothingness.
And what is wrong with matter existing eternally? No specific piece of matter needs to do so, just matter in general.
Per the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, how could matter not exist, as matter & energy can be converted one to another. Zero matter, zero fields and zero energy is a precisely defined state which would violate the HUP.
