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Well, here is what Dr. Stephen Hawking said: "there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," he writes. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."
I think his language might have been somewhat careless.
Yeah, I am old school so I was thinking wind up stop watches. You can get a few hours out of one of them. I do not know how long digital ones will run. You could probably get a few months out of them.
Specialist ones I should imagine. Sports ones might not be adequate! Easy enough though.
He is not wrong. The formation of the universe from nothing does not break any scientific law. I know that this is hard to understand. But one thing that a famous physicist said long before Hawking's time was "Energy is just bookkeeping". And as long as the books balance one does not break the law of conservation of energy. The total energy of the universe has been measured. It is zero, or as close as we can measure it to be. There are both negative and positive energy. If they balance we can have mass and yet not break the law of conservation of energy. Positive energy in one place is balanced by negative energy elsewhere.
Yes, the positive mass energy of the universe, is precisely equal to the negative gravitational energy of the universe. Hypothetically.
No you didn't.
ok. energy is bookkeeping and of course bookkeeping comes from something or nothing? or anything maybe. got it. (thanks)
hypothetically positive mass energy is equal to negative gravitational energy, maybe. Got it.
Thanks. to you and subduction zone. It's evidence that Mt Everest and the Himalayas were formed about 50 million years ago when the Indo-Australian plate collided with the Eurasian Plate as the Earth's continents continue to merge into one supercontinent named Pangaea Ultima again. In The Future, Earth Will Have Just One Continent. It Might Look Like This
Yes? how you know that?
It is not wise to make fun of a concept just because it is beyond your understanding. There are ways to check to see if the idea is reasonable. Your instincts are not a good guide. Neither are mine. There are things about quantum physics that still annoy me. But it does no good to get mad at reality.
Because the Indo-Australian plate is continuing to move northward at the rate of ~70 mm/year or 70 kilometres/million years, after Gondwana broke up about 150 million years ago.
How do you know how many years ago it happened and how it happened?
From the geologic record. It would take months to go over all of the evidence.
Because there is not a skerrick of evidence that less than 4000 years ago a god waved it's magic wand in order to drown most of Noah's family for being naughty, and because there is plenty of scientific evidence to support the hypotheses of plate movement which is easily measured now and as witnessed from volcanic activity and earthquakes.
As a Christian, educated, and trained in biology, even I have trouble wrapping my head around that. I can only image how lost the creationists must feel, especially those from faith groups with apparent aversions to education and mandates to deny science.
Well the cool thing is that one need not discuss astrophysics when discussing evolution. It is only the desperate that move the goal posts that far.
Very true. Or keep repeating meaningless questions or statements long after they are well worn out.