(October 24, 2022 at 12:10 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(October 24, 2022 at 9:04 am)polymath257 Wrote: 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.
Per Emmy Noether's theorem making time and energy conjugate variables, if there's energy now, there must have been the same energy then, just not necessarily in the same form. So there never was nothing.
