Originally posted by FreakyKBH
[b]As I said: Matter is created all the time.
Let's see if you can edit your comments quickly, or perhaps backpeddle and change the natural meaning of the phrases you use.
From your earlier post, a few pages back:
Nemesio: As I recall, the axiom 'Matter/energy is neither created nor destroyed' is elemental to physics.
Matter can no more ntist wasn't asserting that they came from nothing.[/b]
I knew you wouldn't disappoint.[/b]
I am beginning to wonder if you really understand physics at all.
When I said 'Matter cannot be created' this was
always in the
context of an
ex nihilo proposition.
The paper you cited above
clearly does not intimate that matter
came from nothing, but from the energy he describes in his paper.
There is no backpeddling here. I am merely clearing up what you
either don't or won't understand.
If you
knew the axiom I cited, you would know that I was implicitly
saying that 'Matter/energy is neither created nor destroyed
ex nihilo,'
because the complete axiom states that it is neither created nor
destroyed but
merely converted from one to the other. That you
think I am contradicting myself here only testifies to your lack of
knowledge, because (as I said) your digestive system breaks matter
down into energy (apparently 'destroying' it) and vice versa (apparently
'creating' it).
In both cases, it is not
actually created or destroyed, but
converted.
Nemesio