ckrypto on Nostr: 1. The short answer is I don't know. (And I'm okay with that being the extent of it. ...
1. The short answer is I don't know. (And I'm okay with that being the extent of it. I wish more people would just say "I don't know") but yeah it seems matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only change states. My suspicion is there can be exceptions to this, like an event such as the big bang itself, inside black holes, a spontaneous event like vacuum decay, or whatever might happen in very deep time when everything in the universe is cold and dark and there's only one particle per 1x10^⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹ lightyears². But this is getting well outside my area of expertise, so once again I will defer to the scientific community.
2. That seems to be most likely what happened, I don't have evidence to the contrary.
3. The phrase I used, "cosmic soup", is just an analogy for what astrophysicists call "nothing". It doesn't disprove thermodynamics, if you study the research virtual particles always appear in pairs of matter or energy and almost as quickly as they appear they annihilate each other. But again, getting outside my wheelhouse, if you have further questions I would recommend contacting someone who is well versed in quantum mechanics.
2. That seems to be most likely what happened, I don't have evidence to the contrary.
3. The phrase I used, "cosmic soup", is just an analogy for what astrophysicists call "nothing". It doesn't disprove thermodynamics, if you study the research virtual particles always appear in pairs of matter or energy and almost as quickly as they appear they annihilate each other. But again, getting outside my wheelhouse, if you have further questions I would recommend contacting someone who is well versed in quantum mechanics.