We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know

Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by philipov on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:11AM (#32619235)

It's not impossible for something to arise out of nothing. Well, what I really should say is, it's not impossible for two somethings to arise out of nothing, as long as they have opposite charge and annihilate when they come into contact.

I like to imagine there's an anti-universe moving backwards in time from the start of the universe, and that's where all the unexplained missing baryonic antimatter ended up.

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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by smolder on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:45AM (#32619569)

Put in other words, something is a subset of nothing! This idea fits in well with the unprovable MWI as well. If every possibile configuration of spacetime exists, and in a symmetry where everything has an opposite, doesn't it all kind of "add up" to 0? This idea has been in my head since high school physics many years ago.

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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by tadfisher on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:24AM (#32619356)

So the universe is a crazy huge Feynman diagram that got split at the edge of a black hole? Cool.

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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by mensetmanusman on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:23AM (#32620013)

If one redefined nothing as something, then the universe can arise.

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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by jgrowl on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:59AM (#32620378)

I think this comment is actually very insightful.

If you assume that 'nothing' is what cannot exist, then everything becomes a matter of scale and instrument sensitivity

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