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To: ConservativeDude
Does something ever come from nothing?

We just need ONE example!

12 posted on 11/30/2012 11:50:39 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Take a first level quantum course, and you’ll find out.

Don’t try to tell God how to do things...he’s done a pretty good job of on his own.


18 posted on 11/30/2012 12:17:08 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Does something ever come from nothing?

We just need ONE example!”

Obamacare came from Zero?


23 posted on 11/30/2012 12:26:54 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The entire history of German metaphysics since Kant is one long voluminous groping about in the dark trying to figure out that example. They spilled a lot of ink. But they couldn’t figure out why something can’t come from nothing. They could have saved a lot of time by simply recognizing: Something (er, Someone...) has always existed.

And after that, lots of lesser things existed and still exist even today....


37 posted on 11/30/2012 4:54:53 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Does something ever come from nothing?
We just need ONE example!”

Yes. Study “virtual particle pairs”.

In a vacuum, a particle/antiparticle pair can emerge from, well, nothing. Happens a lot actually. The two usually attract and annihilate, leaving nothing behind. Given a slight perturbation, they can avoid each other and survive. One notable case is “Hawking radiation”, where a black hole absorbs one particle leaving the other to look like it did the impossible: emerge from the black hole.

This has actually been captured and leveraged in a lab.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110603/full/news.2011.346.html
By moving a pair of mirrors fast enough, these particle pairs can be disrupted and dispersed, generating light from nothing.


44 posted on 11/30/2012 8:34:24 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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