RE: Actual Infinity in Reality?
February 20, 2018 at 1:44 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2018 at 1:48 am by GrandizerII.)
(February 20, 2018 at 1:31 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(February 20, 2018 at 1:24 am)Grandizer Wrote: Depends on how one is treating the word "nothing". If its to be taken to mean a literal nothingness, then in the first case this is somehow happening, and in the second case, instead of "nothingness", we have the wider universe itself.
I think that’s a sort of semantic that is less useful than it appears. If what is “nothing” can be represented by the complete canceling out of all wave functions. Each component wave function can be said to be there, but for the presence of all the others which exactly cancel it out. So where everything cancels out, is there something or nothing?
I would still consider it a something if only because there it is existing in such a case, and it is a product of other things interacting and canceling each other out. Even if its pretty much just a void.
I see what you mean though. Its just that people have these absolute conception of nothing, so when scientists speak of such things as universe expanding into nothing or coming from nothing, then it comes off as absurd to some of us who fail to understand what they mean exactly.