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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Here's Tom with the Weather.”
- Bill Hicks
Belcastro
And energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed as in the first law of thermo dynamics,
How could a god have created anything if its impossible to create something out of nothing?
signalfire
Leave the heavy thinking to the Gods, kid. You'll hurt yourself.
and I couldn't help myself;
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Here's Tom with the Weather.”
- Bill Hicks
Bedlam
Belcastro
And energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed as in the first law of thermo dynamics,
How could a god have created anything if its impossible to create something out of nothing?
Well, matter is not energy condensed to a slow vibration. From a physics standpoint, the phrase doesn't make sense.
One way of looking at it, is that it's the universe's largest statistical deviation.
Belcastro
With his famous equation E= mc2, Albert Einstein proved that when you come right down to it everything in the universe is energy. Both in the physical plane of our reality of matter and the abstract reality of our mind are made up of energy patterns.
coldkidc
I think a better question is how did anything come into existence if there was at some point nothing?
To me it suggests that there must have always been "something"...perhaps it was God.
Belcastro
And energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed as in the first law of thermo dynamics,
How could a god have created anything if its impossible to create something out of nothing?
asciikewl
reply to post by Bedlam
Sorry, no. If energy is constant, and after some loud noises you have lots of kinetic energy and a bit less mass, then mass is a form of energy.
As to the original posters's question, you have to understand that 'nothing' is actually an incredibly high density energy. And before I'm accused of new-age claptrap, go read up on the casimir effect. Standard physics.
He had the idea of a 'Boltzmann Brain', extended by some more recent thinkers. Given eternity in a quantum flux 'nothingness' at some point, a random fluctuation in this field may take the form of a sentient brain for a VERY short time, and then wink out of existence. But in that moment, it could "observe", collapse a wave function and initiate a big bang.
coldkidc
I think a better question is how did anything come into existence if there was at some point nothing?
To me it suggests that there must have always been "something"...perhaps it was God.
We were taught that you never get something for nothing. But now, after a life time of work, I think that in fact you can get a whole Universe for free.
~ Stephen Hawking
ChaoticOrder
reply to post by Belcastro
Einstein told us that "mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing". The proof of this is most apparent in particle accelerators, where the momentum of the colliding particles can be directly transformed into mass to produce never before seen high energy particles. Quarks are another good example of energy being directly transformed into mass. Color confinement restricts particles such as quarks from being separated, and if you attempt to separate a quark pair the bond will eventually break, however the binding energy will go directly towards creating two new quarks, and you end up with two quark pairs instead of one. However, the real problem here is defining what "energy" is. We typically think of energy as electrical energy, but that's really just flowing electrons. Ambient/radiant energy is just electromagnetic waves (photons). We use the term "energy" to define anything capable of doing work. We should really be attempting to describe the nature of "pure energy", which is at the heart of this problem.
If energy is defined by "doing work", what about a pillar support that is holding a floor up? It's immobile, but it is doing work. It's at rest, but at work at the same time.