(February 28, 2014 at 8:50 am)JesusLover1 Wrote:(February 28, 2014 at 8:49 am)catman Wrote: I don't know what was before then. And neither do you.
But how did nothing become something? I'm genuinely curious.
Here's a simplification of one way: 0=-2+1+1. Nothing can be anything as long as it all cancels out.
More complicatedly, first, you would have to establish that there actually was ever a state that prevailed where there wasn't something, before you could claim that nothing became something. It seems to be the case that absolute nothingness is impossible to achieve, or at least it's difficult to come up with math consistent with known physics that allows it. At the planck scale, it seems quantum foam, which is very nearly, but not actually, nothing, must exist. Quantum foam is the state in which vacuum fluctuations are constantly occurring at the subatomic scale. One theory of cosmological origins is that a vacuum fluctuation can grow out of control to become an entire universe. This implies that there are many universes. It also explains why some features of our universe are the way they are, particularly it having an energy budget that approaches zero.
If true nothingness is not impossible, it is probably unstable.
And that's just ONE theory for a natural cause for the origin of the universe.
