(November 22, 2013 at 7:13 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(November 21, 2013 at 6:36 pm)whateverist Wrote: Nor would they apply to the universe if that is understood as having proceeded from a form of nothingness which contained everything as one of its potential states .. which seems to be the correct description by the way.
Are you trying to argue that the Universe is not made of material and did not have a beginning? Are we now going back to the steady state theories of the 1920s?
Not at all. It just seems that empty space turns out to not be irreversibly empty. With or without the help any pre-existing being to pronounce "let there be ..", the material and immaterial seem to be interchangeable.
