Originally Posted by
Cypress
In quantum mechanics, there is no zero-energy state.
What is the quantum mechanics' statement for this? I don't think there is one.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
There is only the lowest possible energy state of a system, its ground state.
What if that lowest energy state is zero? What if the lowest energy state is negative and the highest energy state is positive? If this ever were the case then the mean value theorem assures us that there is a zero energy state.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
There is no such thing as a true vacuum in the sense of complete emptiness.
How do you know that there aren't countless patches of emptiness opening up every second between atoms, for example, or along imperceptible dimensions 34 through 57?
Originally Posted by
Cypress
Quantum mechanics forbids nothingness.
What is the quantum mechanics' statement for this? I don't think there is one.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
If there are energy fluctuations in a quantum vacuum, very interesting things can happen.
In reality, very interesting things can happen.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
For example, the E = mc2 relation tells us that energy and matter are interconvertible.
Incorrect. The law of conservation of energy mandates that energy always be conserved and Einstein's energy-matter equivalence provides us with an equivalence we can use in that regard. Also, it shows us that things outside matter have mass. It does not state that electricity can be converted to matter, for example.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
A vacuum energy fluctuation can be converted into particles of matter.
I'm not buying this. Do you have anything to offer in the way of verifying this?
Originally Posted by
Cypress
Sounds weird? Maybe, but it happens all the time.
... or maybe it never happens because you are writing science fiction.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
These particles are called virtual particles, living a fleeting existence before plunging back into the ever-busy quantum vacuum.
Aren't these what Captain Kirk used to detect the cloaked Romulan ship?
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Cypress
Physicist Edward Tryon extrapolated the idea of quantum fluctuations to the Universe as a whole.
Is he a member of the Writers Guild? Did he know Gene Rodennberry, by any chance?
Originally Posted by
Cypress
In physics you simply cannot get something out of nothing. Creation ex nihilo is not the way of nature.
... unless nature and its laws are what are being created, in which case the creator (whatever that might be) is not confined to merely those laws.
Also, nobody has any concept of the nature of nothingness. There are no valid statements you can make about it.
Global Warming violates the 1st LoT by claiming a magical creation of thermal energy out of nothing, in the form of a temperature increase, which is somehow caused by a magical substance.
Greenhouse Effect violates Stefan-Boltzmann and black body science by claiming that an increase in earth's temperature is somehow caused by a decrease in earth's radiance.
Greenhouse Effect violates the 2nd LoT by claiming that the cooler atmosphere somehow heats the warmer earth's surface.
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