Or the \"Knot of Truths?\" (Endings)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 21, 2009, 20:39 (5632 days ago) @ xeno6696

You need to read Victor J. Stenger! He argues that the total ampunt of energy in the universe is zero, being made up of the positive energy tied up in mass (mainly) and the negative energy tied up in gravitational potential (and dark energy) responsible for the expansion.
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> > Edit: So in a sense everything IS nothing!
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> Wrote the author down. I've heard his result (That the sum total of all energies is 0) 
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> Here's a question though, there's a debate going on about whether or not dark energy/matter isn't simply the accretion of errors resulting from cosmological computations. If that's the case, then Stenger's idea is tossed out isn't it? - 
Alan Guth made the same comment about the universe being something from nothing, in his book, The Inflationary Universe, 1997, before dark matter and further increasing expansion rate were a big issue (as based on supernova analysis and the guessing about dark energy); his first chapter is "The Ultimate Free Lunch".