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How can we reconcile the Christian description of creation with the evidence God has provided? What does
Sometimes what I think about is how physics can treat creation. All the evidence points to creation as having begun with a "big bang". It produced a seething ball of matter and energy that over some thirteen billion years became the universe we know today. What caused the Big Bang? What pre-existed it? We cannot know for sure, so it is convenient to identify that Initial Cause as "God", by whatever name one chooses.
There may be a real physical sense in which the Universe began from nothing and continues to amount to nothing. From Einstein's equation, E = m c2, we know that matter can be expressed as a (positive) quantity of energy. Gravity it turns out,* has negative energy. To the best we can estimate, which is not all that well, These to quantities are equal: the universe is just a large lump of nothing.
*Alan Guth The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (1997), Random House, ISBN 0-224-04448-6 Appendix A: Gravitational Energy demonstrates the negativity of gravitational energy.
So how did this lump of nothing get separated into matter and energy? One possibility is offered by virtual particles." In quantum physics an instance of nothing can split into two "virtual" particles that are the negative of each other. Say an electron and a positron or a proton and an anti-proton. We cannot normally see such particles because they briefly form as pairs and quickly annihilate each other. Their existence is allowed by the Heissenberg uncertainty relation. As long as they cannot be observed they are allowed to exist.
Suppose that two virtual particles arise so close to the boundary of a black hole that one is sucked into the hole and the other esacapes into space. This is "Hawking radiation" and is expected to shrink blacks. Hawking ruefully admitted that his radiation cannot be seen, but if it could he would win a Nobel prize.
Further suppose that a virtual particle pair appear not in space, but in the nothingness that preceded space. We can speculate two effects that would lead to a universe. The first effect is that a virtual pair surrounded by nothing—not even space—will have nothing to push its partners back together. The two will persist and will create a bit of space around them. The second effect is that raw particles at the edge of space will spark the creation of additional virtual particles. These new particles will also find themselves at the edge of space, and a maelstrom of particles will ensue.
imtial two quarks got too far apart and could not anihilate
one became heaven , the otner earth
each space has one quark
but quarks msut bind with others
asymptotic binding energy
when quarks divide each come with a tiny bit of new space
a single quark has enormo0us binding energy
causes creation of othe quark pairs
the tremendous energy field means there is a hpt soup of quarks and then other pairs emegrge
it may be that the edge of space is still this maelstrom
so the universe will never be complete; it will grow forever
of course there is a god. we exist. the universe and its laws were created
actually some preceded god - the laws of mathematics
god was not able to bend these
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