Seeker79, on 14 November 2012 - 11:40 AM, said:
No I'm not. Pure facts my friend. You are makeing a huge leap here. There is a reason that vacuum energy is called virtual. Unless hawking radiation is prooven correct ( which it is not, the LHC has yet to create mini black holes) it dosnt necessarily manifest.
Our data that says the universe began is simply based on our observations of expansion of visible matter and some temperature readings from COBE.
Yes visible matter. Non of that data says anything about about the vacuum itself.
You are visualizing some sort of fabric that matter is ridding upon. This is the fault of common depictions of space being bent like a rubber sheet. That is just a visualization. Until we know the nature of dark energy nothing can be said about the "fabric of space" and the expanding universe and how that relates to the vacuum and where it came from. When scientists say that all matter and energy came from the singularity, they are mostly talking about visable normal energy. There is no data, no evidence, nothing whatsoever to suggest that the vacuum itself came from the singularity other than this visualization of matter rideing on some kind of balloon. It's a useful analogy, but not necessarily an accurate reality of what is happening.
I would challenge you to find data other than opinion that says the vacuum originated in the singularity.
A good book to see where I am comeing from is
"the cosmic landscape" Lenord Susskind
http://www.amazon.co...aw/d/0316013331
I'm gonna keep it simple, established facts are that through observations and other collected data we know the universe began, it started with a singularity appearing which expanded. These are established facts discovered in the 20th century. The Quran gives this detail and more, some of which is still be to be discovered.
Now based on the established on the facts, anything proposing a cause even god, is dealing with metaphysical aspects which has no empirical proof, therefore can only be reasoned for.
Based on established facts and according to hawkings and others I quoted, say that time, space, sum of all matter began with expansion of the singularity, prior to this nothing existed. Nothing meaning, we dont know what was before or what caused it, nothing logically cannot be the cause, because from nothing we get nothing.
Now to the vacuum, there was no vacuum prior to singularity, the vacuum space time matter all came into existence at the bigbang. You see scientists have been desperately trying to prove that matter can arise from nothing, although everything contrary in science, observation, causality, and experience show otherwise. The holy grail for them was the vacuum which was deemed to closest thing to nothing if not nothing. They found that sub atomic particles came into existence and disappeared. Where did they come from and go, they proposed that this evidence that something can come from nothing! However this was then destroyed when they realised that vacuum is not nothing, it's a rich structure of fluctuating energy (ie consisting of matter whether visible or not, ie sub atomic which is still matter), from which these particles came into existence and vanished with the fluctuations. So for anyone to propose that matter existed in form of a vacuum within which a singularity appeared or caused it to appear is a logical fallacy, cause the sum of all matter is the universe, the vacuum is a part of it and came into existence too, to suggest otherwise is to suggest that universe created itself, another fallacy, how can something exist and not exist at the same time? Plus it would suggest that there is a physical plane beyond the singularity, if so then we should be able to reach it so to speak, our physics would not breakdown at singularity as there would be another physical plane they would function on therefore observable.
Hence why I am saying that I make an argument based on established facts, the counter are all theories which are good in their own right but lack proof and breakdown when philosophically and critically analysed.