(November 14, 2018 at 7:47 am)Jehanne Wrote:(November 13, 2018 at 9:24 pm)sdelsolray Wrote: Aren't "quantum tunneling" and "de Sitter space" two things which taken together are something? All of the "something from nothing" speculations I have researched require various laws, structures or processes to first be in place in order for their nothing ==> something to occur. They all seem quite silly, at least on this point, and appear to reduce to semantics.
Aristotle would have found modern physics to be disturbing.
Perhaps we should bring him all the way here from the past through some time travel machine, and see if he likes what we have or not.