Redefining 'Nothing': A Scientific Perspective on the Universe's Creation.

Soumendra Nath Thakur 

December 13, 2024

Religious individuals who strictly believe in divine creation often reject the idea that scientific laws, such as gravity, could spontaneously create the universe from nothing. Similarly, many philosophical thinkers argue that 'something' cannot emerge from 'nothing,' asserting that nothingness inherently lacks the capacity to produce existence.

However, both perspectives tend to overlook the nuanced interpretation of 'nothing' in an inter-dimensional context. As three-dimensional beings, our perception is inherently limited, and what we define as 'nothing' might merely reflect our inability to detect phenomena beyond our dimensional framework. For instance, dimensions below the Planck scale, imperceptible to human senses and instruments, might harbour vibrational energies, such as strings, which are mathematically plausible but empirically unverifiable due to our limitations.

This perspective is further supported by the understanding that the universe appears as a continuously fluctuating field of matter whose quanta are fermions, i.e., leptons and quarks, and a force field whose quanta are bosons, i.e., photons and gluons. All of these fields have zero-point energy. Even at absolute zero, atoms and molecules maintain some vibrational motion, known as zero-point energy. Moreover, the empty space of a vacuum also exhibits these properties. This suggests that what we perceive as 'nothing' is far from an empty void; instead, it is imbued with subtle, energetic fluctuations that could serve as the foundation for the emergence of existence.

In this light, the universe's creation from 'nothing,' as we perceive it, aligns with a scientific understanding that what appears as 'nothing' may, in fact, be a subtle, energetic substrate capable of generating existence.

"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. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

Stephen Hawking"