(February 13, 2016 at 6:05 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 13, 2016 at 5:58 pm)Alex K Wrote: Krauss has certainly opened quite the formidable can of worms with his nothings and somethings. My interpretation of what he is saying is that if you have a notion of time and quantum physics of some kind, something will always be going on. But to be honest, I don't know for sure what the hell he means. I haven't listened to him in quite a while. I remember that his talk "a universe from nothing" contained a very good introduction to cosmology though...
If nothing lasts forever, and I agree, then not even nothing itself can last forever and has to lead to something.
I think that is what he means, which is why I wonder why it cant be that both nothing is finite and something is finite, and the only infinite part is the switching from one to the other over and over.
But again, you have the degree, so does Krauss, I still am a retard, with enough sense not to stick a god of the gaps answer into it. That really is my only bottom line. I'll let you both battle it out but we can all agree God did not do it.
For this nothing to even lead to something, that sounds like a "nothing" with potential, capacity, or fabric. I don't understand how that is literally a "nothing". A literal one would not lead to anything for it is nothing. That means, not even the potential to lead to anything.
That is why I personally believe there has always been "something" rather than "nothing".