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 .