RE: Why there is something rather than nothing...
August 27, 2016 at 12:36 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2016 at 12:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 26, 2016 at 10:26 pm)Magilla Wrote: I especially agree with the part I've emphasised above. I think that what Krauss means by nothing, and what theologians mean by nothing aren't the same.IKR. Where and when are both spacetime questions. Questions of something rather than nothing. Where was nowhere, when was never? Is nothing?
I think that by nothing, theologians mean nothing whatever, no matter, no energy, no anything, zero, zippo, zilch, sweet Fanny Adams. But we can only try to imagine what that is, because there is something.
When we try to imagine this supposed nothing: "where is it?"; "when was it?"; "for how long was it?" etc. All those questions are only ask-able from the here and now with its somethingness.
"In what would the nothing be contained?"; ( a trivial absurdism ) - it is contained in our minds, (which are something ). I can't convince myself that true nothingness is even possible. But as you say: "We don't know".
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