Reason's Greetings

divineirony:

reasons-greetings:

This article describes how it is theorized that the total energy in the universe is 0. Also hypothesized is a mechanism through which the universe may have began. It’s based on empirical evidence of particles and antiparticles spontaneously entering and vanishing from existence, according to the article.

Good read. My question is, if the total energy is 0, then is the total mass 0 as well?

I don’t think so. The famous equation E = MC^2 basically denotes that for any system of particles that constitutes mass, at rest, its energy is positive and directly proportional to the magnitude of the mass in the system of question.

Basically, mass equals positive energy.

However, any amount or degree of mass will cause a curving of space-time: a gravitational field. I think it is being theorized here that the positive energy stored within mass is directly equal in magnitude and opposite the sign of the gravitational field created by it.

Basically, gravity equals negative energy, and it’s directly equal to the positive energy created by the mass.

So, the summation of all the positive and negative energy in the universe is zero. So it’s definitely true I think that there’s an enormous positive energy associated with a positive amount of mass, but the sum total of the entire gravitational field in this universe directly counters it.

Interesting to think about. :)