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It is false that you cannot get something from nothing. I will explain why.
If a particle, or matter, collides with an antiparticle, or antimatter, the result is nothing. They annihilate each other. They are gone. The same process can occur in reverse, producing an antiparticle and a particle from nothing. If this process happens repeatedly, but with a very slight excess of particles, then the particles will annihilate all the antiparticles, and the antiparticles will annihilate most of the particles. This is how we end up with more particles than antiparticles. This is how matter was formed, and more specifically how a specific amount of matter was formed: 10 to the power of 50 tonnes.
This diagram illustrates it better than I could say it myself.
Anyway, that is how something can in fact be created from nothing.
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This is not technically accurate. Particles cannot just annihilate with nothing produced. When, say, an electron and positron collide, there is a chance that they will destroy each other and produce a pair of photons preserving their energy and momentum- this is known as "particle annihilation". We like to say that particles just disappear and are converted into pure energy, but from the strict physical perspective there is no such thing as "pure energy", as all energy has some carrier having it.
However, the virtual particles, born in vacuum and temporarily violating the energy conservation law, indeed can be seen as forming out of nowhere - and then disappearing into nowhere.
In any case, even though we are not aware of any exact physical processes that cause nothing become something, or something become nothing, on a large time scale - there is nothing prohibiting such processes from existing in principle. As far as logic goes, there is no reason to assume that "something" and "nothing" should always be continuous states that cannot evolve into each other.
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At what time were you planning to give us any evidence that the big bang did not happen? You yourself cannot be considered the determining factor of whether the big bang took place, and you cannot prove that we can't get something from nothing because you cannot see everything that exists in the universe, and you have not been able to do that for the entirety of existence, so you cannot give any accurate information on what actually has happened, is happening, or will happen in the universe, because you weren't here in the past, and you only have access to less than one percent of one trillionth of the universe now, and you won't be here after you die, so your testimony is impotent. Just because we see a bunch of words written here with an avatar, it doesn't prove to us that you actually exist. You could just be a programmed set of posts that was created in a troll farm in Russia and there is no actual you. You'd probably do just as good of a job by living in a dark forgotten closet for the entirety of your life and claiming light doesn't exist because you never saw it. You were never going to accept any evidence about the big bang, so why'd you even bother leaving your closet to create this thread?
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