(April 3, 2014 at 3:22 pm)tor Wrote:(April 3, 2014 at 3:21 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I believe that's why he stated it's a nonsensical question. It is, IMHO, absurd to inquire into the possible location of something which cannot exist (even conceptually, again IMHO).
Nothing is absence of anything.
The question is can there be absence of anything. Or is there always something.
Its not quite as simple as that. What is anything? Is it any-thing? A vacuum is a lack of any thing - but it still contains fields, sub-particles and all sorts of things that are not things.
This is rapidly becoming one of the biggest questions in that divide between science and philosophy. What is nothing?
If you can answer that then we can probably decide if something from nothing is actually possible. Certainly in terms of nothing as it has been defined historically creating something is no problem whatsoever.
Jury's out right now. It may never come in unanimously.
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