However we don’ t know why the amount of energy is what it is. Quantum mechanics would have indicated it was far larger. So understanding the amount of energy is a significant problem for physics.
If the dark energy is related to the volume of the universe and the volume of the universe is expanding due to this dark energy, doesn’ t this imply that something is being created from nothing?
M. M.
L. R. It seems that way but the gravitational field carries negative energy so energy is conserved in the end.
The ancient Greek philosophers tried to solve the question about the origin of things from a philosophic point of view. Parmenides said that nothing emerges from the“ nothingness”. The idea of“ nothingness” seems to me very similar to the idea of emptiness … Do you think about the very, very first origin of everything?
M. M.
L. R.
I try not to since it’ s a question we are not very likely to make progress on. It’ s interesting though— the Greeks thought of order emerging from chaos, which is probably more like what physicists imagine.
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However we don’ t know why the amount of energy is what it is. Quantum mechanics would have indicated it was far larger. So understanding the amount of energy is a significant problem for physics.
If the dark energy is related to the volume of the universe and the volume of the universe is expanding due to this dark energy, doesn’ t this imply that something is being created from nothing?
M. M.
L. R. It seems that way but the gravitational field carries negative energy so energy is conserved in the end.
The ancient Greek philosophers tried to solve the question about the origin of things from a philosophic point of view. Parmenides said that nothing emerges from the“ nothingness”. The idea of“ nothingness” seems to me very similar to the idea of emptiness … Do you think about the very, very first origin of everything?
M. M.
L. R.
I try not to since it’ s a question we are not very likely to make progress on. It’ s interesting though— the Greeks thought of order emerging from chaos, which is probably more like what physicists imagine.