"Larry Barnes" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> What I remember from science and biology classes is this old saying,
>
> 'you can't create something from nothing!'
>
> Everything has existed in some state before; and from my understanding
will
> exist in another state after this earth life.  (some call it
re-incarnation.
> I call it something else)

You should have studied further.... quantum mechanics teaches us that
particles and anti-particles are forever forming momentarily out of nothing
(the quantum vacuum is actually a quantum soup), having a brief sojourn in
our physical reality, and then departing again, either by mutual
self-annihilation, or by more complex particle interactions. In fact, some
particle interactions *need* these intermediates to succeed, a strong
pointer to their being more than just theoretical in a vacuum, so to speak.

But taking your point where it does apply, at the atomic/molecular level,
you should now see a difficulty with reincarnation. All the atoms that ever
were, are, apart from a few we lost in atomic explosions. So we haven't
gained any. And maybe a few atoms in my body were once in Julius Caesar's
body? SO if we are both reincarnated, who gets them?

--
Roy Brown

Come back, Cornelia Burbage. All is *not* forgiven, but we need you to
switch off your OOO, as nobody there seems able to do it for you.
[log in to unmask], please switch off that infuriating message receipt, which
erroneously goes to the 'From' address. I don't *care* if you receive this
or not :-)

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