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The Heisenberg uncertainty principle does allow things to go poof from nothing. In layman's terms, energy can be borrowed from the future to create an electron and proton. They will annihilate each other and return the energy back to the past.Wikipedia:Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe. One contribution to the vacuum energy may be from virtual particles which are thought to be particle pairs that blink into existence and then annihilate in a timespan too short to observe. They are expected to do this everywhere, throughout the Universe.The vacuum energy can be measured as the Casimir force.It is consistent with our understanding of the universe that the negative gravitational energy is completely balanced by the positive energy of mass. Therefore the total energy of the universe could be zero, and require no energy to pop into existence. Of course it is impossible to verify exactly, but to positively say that it cannot happen is not valid.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle does allow things to go poof from nothing. In layman's terms, energy can be borrowed from the future to create an electron and proton. They will annihilate each other and return the energy back to the past.
Wikipedia:
Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe. One contribution to the vacuum energy may be from virtual particles which are thought to be particle pairs that blink into existence and then annihilate in a timespan too short to observe. They are expected to do this everywhere, throughout the Universe.
The vacuum energy can be measured as the Casimir force.
It is consistent with our understanding of the universe that the negative gravitational energy is completely balanced by the positive energy of mass. Therefore the total energy of the universe could be zero, and require no energy to pop into existence. Of course it is impossible to verify exactly, but to positively say that it cannot happen is not valid.
