(April 22, 2012 at 9:52 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote:(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.
I haven't got a citation, but he said it on TV, and the link for the programme was posted on here, on a thread.
Nope. I am aware of Hawking saying there was an excess of 1 out of 1oo million for matter. I would believe you if you said he made that other statement during a stroke. What you might have heard him say is that the big bang should have produced both equally but considering there is obviously matter in the universe, he never said what you claim.
