RE: Creation of universes from nothing.
November 14, 2018 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2018 at 5:50 pm by Dr H.)
(November 13, 2018 at 7:21 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(November 13, 2018 at 6:34 pm)Dr H Wrote: I'd kinda like to know what definition of "nothing" is being invoked here.
The Kraussian type of "nothing", which is still a "something" at the end of the day.
Heh.
“What pray was the electron?”
“Well, there is one fragmentary source which alludes to it as a ‘Negative Twist of Nothingness'.”
-- Brother Francis, in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz
(November 13, 2018 at 9:24 pm)sdelsolray Wrote: They all seem quite silly, at least on this point, and appear to reduce to semantics.
Nothing silly about semantics; semantics are fundamental to communication.
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Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
