(October 5, 2016 at 4:51 am)chimp3 Wrote: I watched a discussion forum in which Lawrence Krauss gave an example of something from nothing. He said that when an electron emits a photon something is created from nothing
because the electron is not diminished in any way. So for us non-scientists is this a good reply to use when arguing with those theists that say something cannot come from nothing?
That is not a very good example of something from nothing. But there is a better one and it is this : virtual particles are created from nothing by borrowing energy to come into existence. And then disappearing almost instantaneously leaving only the energy behind. Energy cannot be created or destroyed as that would violate the First Law Of Thermodynamics. A state of nothing however can
not persist because of the uncertainty relation between energy and time. But it does exist as virtual particles are popping in and out of existence all of the time. And so it was not just a single event occurring before the Big Bang. That is merely the earliest example of something from nothing
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
