--- "Fr. Ivo Da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sorry to witness a sad development in our dialogue. >Instead of Goanet, I had to read aggressive messages >in Goenchim Xapotam, and witness a duel or war among >different members. >
Dear Fr. Ivo, Goenchim Xapotam is a forum for all outspoken Goans and Goaphiles who want to happily engage in heated debates on an unlimited and unrestricted assortment of controversial subjects. It will enable us to archive substantive posts on various topics that are deemed too sensitive or controversial for other Goan forums. > >Casimir Effect explains how the Universe works, it is >not "creation from nothing", of which I am > speaking... > Casimir Effect is indeed a process of creation from nothing. It is the creation of energy from vacuum. > >Unfortunately, you are wrong on two scores: First, >hermeneutical error--you speak of "creation out of >nothing", when it is a fluctuation, or a change. > I don't think a well-established physical phenomenon can be dismissed by a simple play of words. It certainly cannot be dismissed by outdated scholastic theological concepts. "Nothing" in science, common sense and ordinary Engligh is defined as no matter and no energy i.e. a matter/energy vacuum. Casimir Effect is a physical phenomenon that involves the spontaneous production of energy from a matter/energy vacuum. It is not simply a theological concept. It is an objectively, experimentally verified physical phenomenon. > >Secondly, scientific error--according to the first >law of thermodynamics, energy is neither lost nor >created (law of conservation of matter). > The Casimir Effect does not violate the first law of thermodynamics because the total energy of the system in which this effect occurs is zero. Indeed, Casimir Effect creates equal amounts of negative and positive energy, both of which cancel each other out. The total energy of the universe which was created by a Casimir-like phenomenon would be zero. That is to say that the universe in the beginning, in the end and in between amounts to nothing. Cheers, Santosh
