(April 21, 2012 at 2:36 am)Phil Wrote:(April 20, 2012 at 8:17 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: The Universe = nothing. According to Stephen Hawking anyway - there is the same amount of anti matter in the universe as matter, therefore the mass of the universe is nothing. So actually everything is nothing.
It also gets around the xtian "how can something come from nothing" argument, because everything is nothing anyway!
Quite the brain bender.
You got a citation for this? If there wasn't a small asymmetry between antimatter and matter, there would be no "stuff" and the universe would be empty.
Indeed. This is one of the great unanswered questions of physics. Perhaps N&C is thinking about something else, such as the theory that symmetry was expected. So far as we can tell, it didn't occur, or we would not be here to ponder the question. Unless there are isolated regions of antimatter in the universe, which has been determined to be unlikely, at least within the detectable horizon.
