Re: Energy from "nothing" - conflicts with law of preservation of energy?

From: Barry OGrady (god_freee_jones_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:30:24 +1000

On 13 Sep 2004 02:51:16 -0700, marcus4767@canada.com (Guck) wrote:

>twocrafts@hotmail.com (Tue Sorensen) wrote in message news:<c50450f6.0409121850.71c1286a@posting.google.com>...
>> As mentioned here:
>>
>> http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/vacuum_energy_drive.html
>>
>> it might be possible to extract quite large amounts of energy from the
>> quantrum vacuum of empty space itself. Does this not contradict the
>> law of constant and conserved energy? If we could extract large
>> amounts of such energy, wouldn't we effectively have a means for a
>> perpetual motion machine?
>>
>> - Tue Sorensen
>
>What bothers me is the idea of charge. The fundamental charges of
>the electron as -1 and quarkes as +2/3 and -1/3. In the beginning of
>the Big Bang there were obviously no charges. At some point charges
>just appeared out of nothing. So what is a "charge" of a quark or an
>electron
>relative to the instant in the big bang when there were no charges?
>What happened in spacetime? What does a charge mean to the fate of the
>Universe?

The big bang never happened. Its just an uproven theory.

>Guck
>Gary Marcus
>marcus4767@canada.com

-Barry
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