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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/...ritain_hawking
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
Would someone please explain this to me? This quote makes absolutely no sense to me especially from a scientist. How can something be created out of nothing? Hawking says "the law of gravity".
Then how did the law of gravity come into existence? It just seems like a circular argument.
"In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God."
Again, this argument makes no sense to me. Why does a planet orbiting a star other than the sun confirm chaos theory?
I certainly respect him as a scientist and again maybe I shouldn't jump so fast since the media might have quoted him out of context or attempted to sensationalize the story.
If someone can dumb this down for me; I certainly would appreciate it. I'm not trying to be a wise guy; I'm just looking at a quote and I honestly don't see how it makes any sense even from a pure science point of view.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/...ritain_hawking
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
Would someone please explain this to me? This quote makes absolutely no sense to me especially from a scientist. How can something be created out of nothing? Hawking says "the law of gravity".
Then how did the law of gravity come into existence? It just seems like a circular argument.
"In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God."
Again, this argument makes no sense to me. Why does a planet orbiting a star other than the sun confirm chaos theory?
I certainly respect him as a scientist and again maybe I shouldn't jump so fast since the media might have quoted him out of context or attempted to sensationalize the story.
If someone can dumb this down for me; I certainly would appreciate it. I'm not trying to be a wise guy; I'm just looking at a quote and I honestly don't see how it makes any sense even from a pure science point of view.
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