Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Nature abhors annihilation.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.