RE: If there was a 1st moment in time.
May 4, 2018 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2018 at 9:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 4, 2018 at 7:50 am)Hammy Wrote: Everyone knows that anything at all isn't nothing. Krauss just came up with a misleading title to help him sell a book.We can't all be that kid at the temple that the priests come to for advice.
He should have called it "A Universe from Almost Nothing".
Even as a child I knew that something wasn't ever nothing lol.
Consider this..christians believe that their god created the universe from nothing. Whatever something god was in, before he created the universe..is conceptualized as a nothing by them. Similarly, if you ask a layperson about a vacuum they're likely to tell you it's an empty space. Nothing in it. Yes, the title is good for selling books..it's a catchy title...but the reason that it's catchy is that it does tap into how people commonly see these things.
Amusingly, chapter 9 of that book is titled "Nothing is Something", in that chapter he expresses his distaste for how we conceptualize nothing, particularly in that the way we do so might lead a person to classify the something he;s talking about -as- nothing...and that the term itself isn't really coherent in physics.
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