Can you get mater and antimatter from nothing?

Answer 1

So you have nothing in your hand. That means zero. From the zero you can have X and minus X. So X minus X equal to zero. So from nothing you get the energy and anti-energy in equal quantity. So it is the property of space to produce energy and anti-energy from nothing. The quantity is very less in a given space in a given time. But the space is unending and the time is with out the limit. So you get the sizable quantity. Your universe is probably very tiny. So by simple logic you get large amount of energy and exactly equal amount of anti-energy. So from energy you get matter and from anti-energy you get anti-matter. So with every proton produced, you get one electron produced in the space. This is there to maintain the electrical neutrality. So when one anti-proton is produced you get one positron in the space. With every neutron that is produced in the space, you get one anti-neutron. The number of neutron and anti-neutrons produced can not be determined by this theory. So you get matter and antimatter from nothing. It fallows that you get nothing from matter and antimatter. That means matter and antimatter annihilate each other simultaneously. Both formation and annihilation of matter and anti matter goes hand in hand in the space at any given time.

Answer 2

No, you can't - except for a very short time. Both matter and antimatter have mass, and you can't get mass where none was before. However, due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - in this case, involving the uncertainty in energy and in time - you can get some energy out of nothing for a very short time; provided the energy is "paid back" to the vacuum after an extremely short time.