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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Why is there something and not nothingness?
« on: 25/07/2008 18:48:53 »
If you delve deep into what everything 'is', you eventually find that the universe is basically information.
Einstein proved that mass can be converted into energy. Energy is the building block of our universe and operates very differently from matter. But when energy is matter, it suddenly takes on the laws of nature we apply to matter (Newtonian physics, relativity, etc...). The properties that make energy and matter exist in time and have spatial relationships had to be logically created to act that way and no other way. Something had to use wisdom to impart information into the particles to make them act the way they do. The idea of information and logical intelligence is a purely human one and can't be directly applied to the universe in a way we would think of as discernment, mental logic and intelligence. However, if you look at the blueprints for the interactions in the universe, it becomes apparent that there has to be information guiding interactions for there to be order from disorder in evolution (cellular life from goo, planetary systems from hydrogen and fusion, etc...).
I believe that as humans delve deeper into high energy particle physics, the underlying reason for the presence of the information will eventually be found. When we do, I think that it will make it possible to understand why the information is there in the first place and what, or who, put it there. Thusly, why there is 'something' as opposed to 'nothing.'
Einstein proved that mass can be converted into energy. Energy is the building block of our universe and operates very differently from matter. But when energy is matter, it suddenly takes on the laws of nature we apply to matter (Newtonian physics, relativity, etc...). The properties that make energy and matter exist in time and have spatial relationships had to be logically created to act that way and no other way. Something had to use wisdom to impart information into the particles to make them act the way they do. The idea of information and logical intelligence is a purely human one and can't be directly applied to the universe in a way we would think of as discernment, mental logic and intelligence. However, if you look at the blueprints for the interactions in the universe, it becomes apparent that there has to be information guiding interactions for there to be order from disorder in evolution (cellular life from goo, planetary systems from hydrogen and fusion, etc...).
I believe that as humans delve deeper into high energy particle physics, the underlying reason for the presence of the information will eventually be found. When we do, I think that it will make it possible to understand why the information is there in the first place and what, or who, put it there. Thusly, why there is 'something' as opposed to 'nothing.'