I just thought i would chime in with a few known things that science knows about "something coming from nothing" According to the Uncertainty priciple (remeber principle means a law that has been proven by experiments and agrees with all observations) that even in the vacuum of space(nothing) there still exist a small amount of energy (something) determined by the uncertainty princible. The uncertainty principle is defined as such:
Just a moment... . or that one can never know the posistion and the velocity of a particle. The more one knows about the velocity the less one can know about the posistion and vice versa.
"The Casimir Effect is a small attractive force which acts between two close parallel flat metal plates place near eachother in a vacuum, The pressure is due to a reduction in the usual number of virtual particles in the space between the plates."(The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkings p202)
Virtual particles are defined as: "In Quantum mechanics, a particle that can never be directly detected but whose exsistance does have measurable effects. Also see Casimir Effect.") (The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkings p. 208)
paraphrasing the following from "The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkings p 44-45)
"According to quantum theory, the ground state, or lowest energy state of a system is not just sitting at the lowest energy state. That would have a definite position and velocity of zero. This would be a violation of the uncertainty principle. The ground state of any oscillating system must have a certain minimum amount of what are called zero point fluctuations."
This is the background on how in space which we call the vacuum there actualy exists energy there, and because of E=mc if you have energy you can have mass. So thus this is how something can come out of seemingly nothing. I hope this has helped
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[This message has been edited by sup32string, 07-27-2003]
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