RE: Presentism and Infinite Chain of Past Events
December 11, 2017 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2017 at 1:23 pm by henryp.)
(December 11, 2017 at 1:11 pm)Hammy Wrote:(December 11, 2017 at 1:08 pm)wallym Wrote: https://www.livescience.com/28132-what-i...ebate.html
"The theoretical physicist Eva Silverstein of Stanford University suggested a highly technical nothing based on quantum field theory that involved a quantum system lacking degrees of freedom (dimensions). "The ground state of a gapped quantum system is my best answer," she said."
Do you (hammy) have an intuitive take on that? Do you think Grandizer considered whatever the fuck she just said when forming his conclusion?
My take is that they're talking about the scientific reconceptualization of quote-unquote 'nothing'.
And they're not talking about nothing. It's not possible to talk about nothing. One can only talk of 'nothing'. Nothing is by definition that which is not something and they are most definitely talking about something. If it were nothing they wouldn't even be able to talk about it, let alone discover it.
So you're saying nothing is something, so nothing can't exist? That seems like a failure of language more than saying anything about the nature of the universe.
0 has always been a problem in math/science.
