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edmc^2
This concept and reality is the same with God - He Always existed! That's all there is to it. Otherwise the other and ONLY alternative is to accept that nothing created everything.
edmc^2
Actually, based on current understanding the universe is composed of:
74% dark energy
22% dark matter
4% normal matter
give or take...
Some say that this dark matter is related to the newly discovered Higgs Boson.
edmc^2
No experiment past, present and future (day to day experience - till the end of time) can make this axiom true:
"Out of nothing, comes something".
There's no equation in the world or even tin he universe that can make 0=1! No power in existence can do it. It just can't be done - unless of course you can.
Furthermore, since we already know with certainty that "matter" is a product of "energy" thus we have a solid foundation that the Material Universe was indeed the "transformation of mater and energy (Carl Sagan - Cosmos)"
“Most and possibly all elementary particles may be created by materialization of energy.” -- astrophysicist Josip Kleczek / The Universe Vol 11 p17
Thus "Out of Something (energy), comes something (matter - universe)".
The only question then that remains for us to answer (on this subject) is this:
What is the ultimate SOURCE of ENERGY (from which matter came from)?
The ONLY logical answer is:
Something or Someone Eternal!
What Is Your Conclusion?
Our Universe
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ----------------↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Had No ---------------- Had a
Beginning? -----------------Beginning?
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓-------------↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
Without Cause ----------Was Caused
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ---------↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
By Some THING --------By Some ONE
Eternal ?------------------ Eternal?
What say you?
'...there was absolutely nothing - not even space and time....Such concept is nonsense based on scientific logic and day to day experience.'
This also seems to rule out a god being able to influence our universe in any way from outside of it (for those that claim this).
edmc^2
reply to post by Cogito, Ergo Sum
[qoute]Lol. You realize you just ruled out god? [/qoute]
Exactly!
0=1 rules out God. It also rules "out of something comes something" for how could an Always Existing God be present if there was NOTHING (0) to begin with?
But the fact is, I didn't rule out God from the equation. No for the simple reason that I always view that "something or someone eternal" was always present when energy materialized into matter.
that nothing created something.
spy66
reply to post by Cogito, Ergo Sum
This also seems to rule out a god being able to influence our universe in any way from outside of it (for those that claim this).
No it dosent. If the body of God is the absolute empty Space. Than what ever he creates must be of him self.
There is no way finite can come from anything else but the absolute empty Space. Because it is infinite and takes up all Space possible.
Every thing God makes is 100% under his controll. Because there are no exsternal Sources present that can be Equal to the absolute empty Space. This Space is the strongest form of Space there is. It is absolut neutral.
edmc^2
Exactly!
0=1 rules out God. It also rules "out of something comes something" for how could an Always Existing God be present if there was NOTHING (0) to begin with?
It doesn't make logical sense.
But the fact is, I didn't rule out God from the equation. No for the simple reason that I always view that "something or someone eternal" was always present when energy materialized into matter.
Now if you think this is unconvincing inspite of the fact that it's both logical and reasonable AND VERIFIABLE, then that's on you. But so far you haven't presented any convincing explanation as to the origin of the universe other than "who knows".
that nothing created something.
Itisnowagain
edmc^2
reply to post by Cogito, Ergo Sum
[qoute]Lol. You realize you just ruled out god? [/qoute]
Exactly!
0=1 rules out God. It also rules "out of something comes something" for how could an Always Existing God be present if there was NOTHING (0) to begin with?
God is nothingness - which is what is always present.
The present is always present but there maybe ideas arising presently that talk of 'someone' who lives in time - a separate person.
There is nothing apart from the present - which is always happening as this (whatever is actually happening).
But the fact is, I didn't rule out God from the equation. No for the simple reason that I always view that "something or someone eternal" was always present when energy materialized into matter.
The present is eternal - there is no 'something/someone'.
The present just continually appears different.
that nothing created something.
No 'thing' was ever created.
This is both nothing and everything - emptiness IS form.
edit on 16-11-2013 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Then we (our universe) are either not an isolated system, or the laws of thermodynamics are wrong? If god influences our universe, we can detect him. Got an experiment for that?
Where is your absolute empty space? You seem to be claiming this as fact, what experiment did you use to find it and verify its properties (ie. that it is god)?
edmc^2
My sentiment as well. It's "a fools game" or a "fools gold" to look for the meaning of the word "nothing".
Unfortunately, proponents of "Out of nothing, comes something" axiom have no choice but to support it because the alternative is - to be honest - unpalatable.
Furthermore, they have no choice but to prop it up for the simple fact that the very foundation of of a long held sacred theory - that life came from nothing - rest on it.
Unfortunately, holding to such axiom is a dead-end endeavor as there's no real answer to it. Thus one has to have "faith" in order to accept and hope (against all hopes) that someday an answer will present itself.
Funny thing is or the irony of it is, it takes more "faith" to believe or held unto such axiom than to accept the existence of an always existing spacetime continuum.
"Out of nothing, comes something" - how believable is that?
Wow, verifiable too! lol. I am just being honest when I claim ignorance. This itself is the highest form of wisdom, according to Socrates. I agree with him. If we wish to know something, it first seems necessary to at least realize that we don't know. That's a good place to start and quite an important step that many seem to overlook! Your god is unconvincing so far, because it is an obvious special pleading fallacy.
As energy is converted to matter, higher energies allow heavier and more exotic particles to be created.
Protons - the hearts of atoms - fired in opposite directions around the tunnel at just under the speed of light are smashed together at enormous energies, simulating conditions that occurred an instant after the Big Bang.
Scientists are switching to the Dark Side as they prepare to ramp up the power at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). After capturing a species of Higgs boson, the particle hunters now have their sights set on a new trophy - dark matter.
The charges of electron and proton must be equal and opposite; the neutron must outweigh the proton by a tiny percent; a matching must exist between temperature of the sun and the absorptive properties of chlorophyll before photosynthesis can occur; if the strong force were a little weaker, the sun could not generate energy by nuclear reactions, but if it were a little stronger, the fuel needed to generate energy would be violently unstable; without two separate remarkable resonances between nuclei in the cores of red giant stars, no element beyond helium could have been formed; had space been less than three dimensions, the interconnections for blood flow and the nervous system would be impossible; and if space had been more than three dimensions, planets could not orbit the sun stably.
The charges of electron and proton must be equal and opposite; the neutron must outweigh the proton by a tiny percent; a matching must exist between temperature of the sun and the absorptive properties of chlorophyll before photosynthesis can occur; if the strong force were a little weaker, the sun could not generate energy by nuclear reactions, but if it were a little stronger, the fuel needed to generate energy would be violently unstable; without two separate remarkable resonances between nuclei in the cores of red giant stars, no element beyond helium could have been formed; had space been less than three dimensions, the interconnections for blood flow and the nervous system would be impossible; and if space had been more than three dimensions, planets could not orbit the sun stably.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by edmc^2
So what you're saying is, as long as we're inventing irrational explanations, you might as well adhere to something that benefits you personally according to how you would like to be benefitted by such a system. Or in other words, if you're going to have an imaginary friend, it might as well be a genie who lives only to make you the happiest person on Earth.
Why am I not surprised?