Could creation have been triggered by a single thought?

Question

could a vast nothing suddenly have gained consciencness for one brief moment causing all the energy of nothing to focus at one place?

Answer 1

That's a religion question, not a science question. Go ask in R&S.

Answer 2

It was likely a single space-time pulse that emerged from a finite potential when nothing existed.

Answer 3

Inconceivable. Before the Big Bang there was Nothing.  Nothing can't think.  By what mechanism could Nothing gain consciousness?  I don't get it.

Consciousness derives from something called a brain and nervous system.  Consciousness isn't some kind of free-floating, autonomous thought-entity that causes matter to pop into existence. This is, at best, an absurdist fantasy.

Answer 4

Interesting image. 10 points for the concept. But if you analyze it you'll see that to formulate a thought, you need tens of thousands of neurons busily exchanging information, so you'd need a framework before Creation.

Hawking once talked about space-time condensing, like moisture on a cold spell.

In a suggestion a posted here sometime ago and that I saw corroborated by other people, vacuum instability in infinite time, can very well make a universe spring into existence in all sorts of configurations. Many with little energy and evaporating quickly. Others hanging on for a bit. And then, our fluctuation 14 billion years ago, with the appropriate mass/energy for our own existence.

With infinite time you can have the whole shebang.

And couldn't creatures from previous periods survive to ours? Why not? Maybe like Buddha said about Brahma, when God appeared there was no one around so he thought: "I must have created this !!"

Food for thought, I hope.

Answer 5

That is how 'Brahma', the creator (Hindu mythology) did or supposedly did. He created the universe as a 'thought'.

That apart, there is nothing like it in Astronomy.

Answer 6

If creation was triggered by a single thought, who's thought was it?  I'm a firm believer in God and the creation theory of the universe, but how He did it is way beyond even my small brain. Did He make everything at once, or did He make nothing and sit back while it all came together, or was it something in between?  I personally don't care how it happened.  All that matters is I'm here now. Creation doesn't need to explain itself.  Our job is to enjoy God's handiwork before we totally destroy it.