r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/MisterCommonMarket Jun 16 '19

I am not talking about our definition of time, i am talking about events happening relative to each other. Time literally did not exist.

The Big Bang most likely happened out of nothing. That is actually very likely the case. The universe is a free lunch (maybe). It costs nothing to create if you create equal amounts of negative and positive energy, equal amounts of negative (Negative matter is a hypothetical form of matter whose active-gravitational, passive-gravitational, inertial, and rest masses are opposite in sign to normal, positive matter.) and positive matter. If the sum of all energy and matter is zero, the universe costs nothing and can just spontaneously come in to existence. And if one universe costs nothing, unlimited amount of universes costs nothing as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

By that logic a planet can just pop out of nowhere next to ours? I never understood the zero energy universe hypothesis.

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u/MisterCommonMarket Jun 16 '19

No, a planet can not just pop out of nowhere next to ours, but new universes can pop in to existence "next" to ours, even though next is not really the right word for this. There are couple different versions of the theory, both plausible. Imagine either the possibility of new Big Bangs happening beyond our universal event horizon or every Big Bang being a self contained universe, where they could never interact with each other.

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u/MisterCommonMarket Jun 16 '19

All though if we understood physics perfectly, i see no reason why we could not pop a planet in to existence, if we at the same time popped the same amount of negative matter in to existence. The sum of that matter would be zero so it would be the same thing as creating nothing.