RE: Something or nothing
August 16, 2010 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2010 at 3:06 pm by Captain Scarlet.)
@darkest. Thank you for the demolition of my premise. I did understand the first 3 of your points before posting. But on an effort to present a simple argument it has ended up as being too simplistic. So perhaps you could help reformulate, the points I am trying to make are:
- the "something exists rather than nothing" argument is invalid as nothing really is non-existence by definition, so to assert this is to say non existence exists
- as I think you have stated a vacuum is not nothing as it's a sea of potential energy and particles explained through quantum physics. When thiests use the term nothing it is not clear what they mean and in my formulation I was playing back what effectively amounted to that vaccuum
- comparing something with nothing is not only invalid because of the first point but also because it should be why do we have everything rather than nothing. The uni,multi,manyverse is all that there is.
- when we look in awe at the whole universe while it is impressive in net terms, there is a lot less than you would expect
of course you may take issuUe with these points, I'd appreciate yor view
- the "something exists rather than nothing" argument is invalid as nothing really is non-existence by definition, so to assert this is to say non existence exists
- as I think you have stated a vacuum is not nothing as it's a sea of potential energy and particles explained through quantum physics. When thiests use the term nothing it is not clear what they mean and in my formulation I was playing back what effectively amounted to that vaccuum
- comparing something with nothing is not only invalid because of the first point but also because it should be why do we have everything rather than nothing. The uni,multi,manyverse is all that there is.
- when we look in awe at the whole universe while it is impressive in net terms, there is a lot less than you would expect
of course you may take issuUe with these points, I'd appreciate yor view
