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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2337473" data-attributes="member: 177">Hm.  I don't want to go into Higgs particles here....But, one way to explain a way to get something from nothing isn't too complicated...Everyone has heard of the Uncertainty Principle - you cannot know the precise position and momentum of a particular object at one time.  The more you know about where a thing is, the less you know about where it is going, and vice versa.The thing is, with a little twist of math, we can see the same thing happening with different variables.  Just as with position/momentum, I can pair Time and Energy in uncertainty.Thus - the more precisely I know the time, the less precisely I know the energy.  Of anything - a particle, a field, what have you.So, let's look out at the vacuum of space, or the space between protons and neutrons, or what have you.  On the whole, there's nothing there.  Nothing happening.  But the UP tells me that I cannot say that, for any particular moment, that the field has zero energy.  That's equivalent to saying that I know both variables with high precision, and that's not allowed.  So, for any given moment, that field may well have something other than zero energy.  For really small moments, it can have huge amounts of energy.In other words, you can pull energy out of nowhere and nothing, so long as it doesn't stick around for long.</blockquote>