Individual wrote:I have heard about individual atoms spontaneously appearing but that at the same time others are disappearing much as one would find in any equilibrium equation. That would mean that for our universe to have been created, twice the amount of all matter in the universe would have had to come out of nowhere. And since something must come from somewhere, especially that volume of something, I cannot embrace that theory for the creation of the cosmos.
Not exactly. A particle and its anti-particle (electron-positron, for instance) can spontaneously pop into existence from quantum fluctuations in the energy field of space-time (see Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) but individual atoms do not spontaneously appear.
The net energy of the universe is zero. Positive energy (matter) is exactly balanced by negative energy (gravity).
We do not know what the multiverse was like before the big bang, but there was undoubtedly quite a lot of "something" (branes, quantum foam, singularity, or whatever) rather than nothing.
Quote:In the end, I still believe that I must have created the universe. And it is not flawed, Terry, because there is nothing else to compare it with.
Perhaps the universe is flawless from your perspective, but I don't need anything to compare it with in order to know that I could have done a better engineering job, had I been God. The correctable flaws in human beings are obvious. Cosmological flaws are debatable, but colliding galaxies, black holes, asteroids which can wipe out life on an entire planet, and a sun that will incinerate the earth in a few billion years don't seem to be a perfect Plan.
If you could personally create an entire universe, it should be easy to add a teensy little addition: just make a winning Powerball ticket appear on my desk, and I will gratefully acknowledge you as the Supreme Creator.
