(February 4, 2012 at 5:19 am)Phil Wrote: So now your claiming there is a possible nothing?! First off, recall how I told you to consider the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? That tells us that no two conjugate properties can be measured exactly. Your nothing has no matter which means you can measure it's density to an exact degree. The conjugate variable of density is pressure. Now when you claim there is no density, you can make no claim as to pressure (other than it is non-zero). Scientifically speaking there is no such thing as nothing and that is because nothing is unstable. You must have rode a short yellow bus if you actually think a dictionary definition is going to disprove anything in science. Another reason that has been proposed to show how nothing is unstable is that it considers the conjugate variables of empty space to be the energy density and the rate of change of the energy density. If the rate of change is zero (meaning nothing according to your definition) then the energy density must be non-zero. If the energy density is zero, the rate of change must be non-zero and there you have quantum fluctuations.
Any other education you need? Send a tuition check my way.
I've already addressed this in my last reply. Empty space isn't nothing and virtual particles appearing in empty space don't prove your theory. By definition, something which is unstable has properities, and anything which has properities isn't nothing. So what you call nothing is actually something. All of this is completely meaningless to the question, which have dodged yet again. The question being, since the Universe had a beginning
did something come from nothing?..nothing meaning, literally nothing
was there always something? (eternal first cause)
or are you saying there is an infinite regress of causes?
Psalm 19:1-2
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.