Today is Ask An Atheist Day.

[LostOne4Ever]

63. I dont know, but I have this speculation

Im not an astro physicist and probably wrong on this, but (as said above) I think that "Nothingness" is unstable. You can't have something without nothing and vice versa. So nothingness broke into matter and antimatter.

Further, I seem to remember that it was suggested by Stephen Hawking, that the sum total of all energy, matter, and antimatter in the universe is 0. So my best guess on the matter is:

Before Big Bang
0
During the Big bang
0=> ( + 1)+(-1)

After the big Bang
(+1)+(-1)=> (+ 1)+(-1)+(+ 1)+(-1)+(+ 1)+(-1)+(+ 1)+(-1)....

Note:
(+1)=matter
(-1)=antimatter

To add to this, in biology there is this phenomenon that happens called diffusion. Diffusion is that when a solid is dissovled in some sort of solvent (lets say water) it will spread from areas of high concentration to lower concentration. Im guessing this happens to energy in space. Not only is nothingness unstable but when matter and antimatter formed the nothingness around it start pulling it so that it would spread through out the universe thus explaining why the universe is expanding and why the big bang occurred. I think this might be related to the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Of course this is just my speculation on the subject. I DO NOT KNOW for certain.


ANOTHER hypothesis I heard of (I believe it was from Robert Ingersoll) and found very credible is that according to the first law of thermodynamics energy can not be created or destroyed. Something that can not be created or destroyed is eternal. That means that matter HAS ALWAYS been here.

This means the idea that something MUST come from nothing is false. Further, its similar to the theist explanation of the universe. Theist say "something cant come from nothing" correct? Therefore god must have created the universe. But where did god come from? The usual response is hes always been here, because hes eternal. Well if energy is eternal then that means its always been here too and removes the need for a god altogether.

Of course both explanation break the initial premise that something cant come from nothing, therefore that premise must be wrong as far as im concerned

So going by this hypothesis energy in one form or another has always existed. This works well with the physics theory that we are going through endless cycles of big bangs and big crunches (where the gravity of the universe slows down its expansion till the universe collapses on itself).

Of course the problem with this hypothesis is that scientist now know that the universe rate of expansion is ACCELERATING and no-one knows why! This is why I like the other theory better. Whew. That was long. Im sure that was completely