Is Nothing really something?
We are all curious how we ended up here. If you read the theory of big bang, the universe expanded over 13.8 billion years from a tiny point into these billions of galaxies that makes up the universe. These galaxies are accelerating away from each other which is sort of an anti-gravity effect. To account for it, there are dark matter and dark energy sources scattered across the space-time continuum as postulated by modern day cosmology.
The bottom line is, while galaxies and stars make up the bulk of the matter, the space-time where they reside is also not a static rubber sheet. It is constantly changing with the dark energy, dark matter that makes it.
At some point as the universe is in an inflationary phase (accelerated expansion), when the fuel is all spent, all stars have died and all galaxies are dead, the space is left with a constant spread of dark energy. It is similar to all the big fellows have collapsed, exploded and over time, the space-time is filled with sub-atomic particles that are too tiny to regroup.
This constant energy space-time could be the starting point of a big bang. Somewhere some of these tiny particles in some combination or interaction light up the big bang which spreads like wild fire across the space-time continuum and results in again forming stars and planets and so on into a inflationary phase until it again quietens down into a constant energy spread.
So in short, the nothing from which everything sprouts is actually something like a constant energy spread similar to the way a constant acceleration is equal to a state of rest.
Fundamentally we have seen characters appearing out of nowhere and disappearing into thin air only in movies. So, the ability to create ‘something’ from ‘nothing’ is not something we have witnessed with our own eyes to believe it. May be if an experiment can create matter from ‘nothing’ (or from a quantum field which is invisible), we will have more solid evidence here.
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