(April 14, 2016 at 7:08 am)SteveII Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 6:06 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: The error he is making here, is that he is not using the physicist's meaning of the term "nothing". Which tends to be different than he way theists define the term.That is utter nonsense. Nothing means "not anything". If a physicist means anything else, than it is something.
Nothing, to physicists is not complete nonexistence.
You do realize that words have more than one meaning, right?
'Prime' steak; 'prime' the pump. Same word, "prime", two different meanings.
"Theory", in science and common usage, two different meanings.
In German, "spiel" can be a verb, 'to play', or a noun, 'a game'. In English it means a long winded speech, something entirely different from its German meanings.
So... 'nothing' may mean something different in physics than it does in common usage.