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Of course you don't have to agree with Syandana (that nothing is better than anything else)! In fact all the rest of the story tells of the disastrous consequences of reasonings such as these.

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This is a silly comic, but the idea that everything can come out of nothing (as long as the sum of its parts = 0) is not so silly.. in fact it is a serious theory, called zero-energy universe, which states that the total amount of energy in the universe is exactly zero: its amount of positive energy in the form of matter is exactly canceled out by its negative energy in the form of gravity. (from wikipedia)

Stephen Hawking says in his book The Grand Design (2010): "Empty space is stable. Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can."

And this older article (1973) by Edward Tryon "Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation?" proposes a big bang model in which our Universe is a fluctuation of the vacuum. The model predicts a Universe which is homogeneous, isotropic and closed, and consists equally of matter and anti-matter. All these predictions are supported by, or consistent with, present observations.

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Of course you don't have to agree with Syandana (that nothing is better than anything else)! In fact all the rest of the story tells of the disastrous consequences of reasonings such as these.

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This is a silly comic, but the idea that everything can come out of nothing (as long as the sum of its parts = 0) is not so silly.. in fact it is a serious theory, called zero-energy universe, which states that the total amount of energy in the universe is exactly zero: its amount of positive energy in the form of matter is exactly canceled out by its negative energy in the form of gravity. (from wikipedia)

Stephen Hawking says in his book The Grand Design (2010): "Empty space is stable. Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can."

And this older article (1973) by Edward Tryon "Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation?" proposes a big bang model in which our Universe is a fluctuation of the vacuum. The model predicts a Universe which is homogeneous, isotropic and closed, and consists equally of matter and anti-matter. All these predictions are supported by, or consistent with, present observations.