"Nothing at all" - Heart
Posted on 09/18/2022 9:42:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Sorry, your fom was right. I must have beenhalf asleep. But the remainder of my reply, which as tge main point, was not wrong.
Thanks BenLurkin. The various witch hunt committees have been making very little out of nothing for a while now.
I was listening to a hilarious podcast about the claims of 1950s era UFO contactees.
Current physics will probably age just about as well in seventy years.
;-)
thank you...
Those Wilson sisters can sing!
Matter can neither be created or destroyed
it’s the law
Law of conservation of matter
Conservation of matter principle has been replaced by conservation of energy - Its more general.
This is the actual article describing the physics and the experiments:
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/something-from-nothing/
Not going to pretend I completely understood the article or it’s ramifications (if any). After all, my undergraduate degree was in History.
However, I am skeptical that claims arising from experimental results (achieved in a laboratory after a great deal of expertise, equipment, and effort) can be applied to the infinitely unconstrained space that is the Universe and the almost perfect vacuum that is the end state of the heat death of said Universe. (Coming in approximately 100 trillion years!! Mark your calendars!)
Sarcasm aside, there is also the matter of residue.
“Something” implies an independent physical esistence. I may have missed it, but I don’t recall the article mentioning a graphene residue after the experiment was shut down or providing any photographs of the physical substance. Of course, this would be the most valuable graphene in the world due to it’s provenance. At one atom thickness, the graphene might be difficult to find. However, a claim of this magnitude depends on having indisputable tangible evidence.
So, where is the “something?”
Since this was done in a powerful electromagnetic field, that energy field yielded matter, the reverse of burning matter to create energy. Matter and energy are related, and perhaps this experiment shows that they can be converted. That should surprise no one.
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Well you are not going to learn whether that is true from reading this poorly written article. The claim of something and minus something from nothing infers that no energy was taken from the electromagnetic field. If you cannot demonstrate that is the case then you have nothing.
So your theory is much more likely. Something from something else.
“Damn, you beat me to it.”
I know it’s a race on FR. I was typing so fast I made a typo and didn’t catch it in preview.
I’m a woman but 7 of 9 has aged well.
I agree. Worf would be my choice.
This just sounds like Hawking Radiation.
A virtual particle pair appears out of nothing (quantum mechanically happens all the time) and instead of immediately recombining, they are being held apart by the magnetic field.
It’s simple(SIMPLE?!?!?!?) Quantum Mechanics.
100%
Without the strong electric fields nothing from nothing is nothing. Misleading headlines I would think.
So that’s how G-d created the universe.
5.56mm
And then they made a black hole.
Now I can't breathe, no air, nothing!
Or just false headline I would think. They created matter from energy, not from nothing. Nothing against known physical laws.
Almost science articles for the popular press are written by the university/instition/company/government PR departments. I few quotes from the researchers thrown in to give an air of knowledge and authority. Science & technology reporting it isn’t!
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