RE: [asa] Quantum Physics: Something from Nothing?

There is no such thing as "nothing." Humans cannot conceive of nothingness only a Creator can. Quantum field theory does indicate that a particle and an antiparticle pair can be created out of the vacuum. However, the vacuum is not really "nothing" but a rather complicated state of the system, the ground state.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of David Opderbeck
Sent: Sun 8/10/2008 11:23 AM
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Subject: [asa] Quantum Physics: Something from Nothing?

Is it accurate to state that quantum physics demonstrates that "something can come from nothing?"

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David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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