metaphysical disputes. Just like the laws against drink-driving exist purely because we invented cars. "Only giving natural explanation for its coming into existence will be problematic". Laws are merely descriptions of observed regularities. nothing? But you seem to take that to mean 'within a limited scope'. Sheffer The only real difference between art and science is that science recognizes the fact that its theories might be wrong. I merely wanted to point out the fact that, IMVHO, Science argues FOR Intelligent Creation every time it is forced to manufacture circumstances to elicit a prescribed result by the very act OF creating those circumstances. This is the closest mathematicians get to was disassembly into more basic units. Otherwise who are you to "validate" or refute anything if you do not have the knowledge or experience to do so? " Regarding your meaning of nothing, such a nothing may not and may not have ever existed. Is it even possible that I could ask a question that might not be judged as dismissive, and might, actually, stir a moment of contemplation, in the mind of an astrophysicist? So what is a better explanation? existential import of the classical quantifiers. something exists. Or, it may be a potential physical reality. And we can also calculate how much energy is needed for the ball to break that "law". Everything was already inside the original fluctuation before space expanded, all the mass and energy which fill the universe were once below plank length. There are lots of ideas --…, Over the years, we've been blessed with innumerable breathtaking images from the pursuit of science - from the unimaginably huge Pillars of Creation to the endlessly tiny Mandelbrot Fractals. And, oddly enough, the ones wanting you to read about their faith won't read, for example, The God Delusion or Good Omens. While that may seem wordy and verbose, basically what it boils down to is that theories are the end goal of science. A black hole that by its very mass is constricted into a nearly infinitely small size, that at some stage unable get any smaller explodes into the “nothing” surrounding it, an expansion faster than the speed of light on the “nothing/something border, slowing to the speed of light within the newly created Universe. prior to creation (setting aside an omnipresent God). Cats when they win let their opponent get up and run off. And in several years of looking for an answer you have been the first to give me one in this philosophy.Christian Muslims and others have told me No body knows as well I just dont like being treated like its a stupid question and having the subject turn into some other rabbit trail of an argument. testing which theorems will apply: count all the universal This divine explanation threatens to over-explain the data. Even in empty space. To the scales our energies can reach anyway. in. So does this mean that, when our universe expands fast enough, it will prevent the virtual particles from annihilating and create another universe? the data within a framework of plenism: although the universe is full, Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo, 1997, “There might be nothing: Five Discoveries In Fundamental Physics That Came As Total Surprises, Even while the world suffers, investing in science is non-negotiable, Merging Neutron Stars Deliver Deathblow To Dark Matter And Dark Energy Alternatives, Calorie restriction does not lengthen lifespan for primates, Comments of the Week #125: from the Universe's age to impossible engines, Five iconic science images, and why they're wrong. the fact that it is possible for each object to not exist seems "why not use your language to more effectiveness by saying that the QVF passed through the ‘nothing’; destabilizing it and....". nothing. something without using any existential premises. These are not feasible given the comprehensive reading of Perhaps it should be " Why is there something rather than non existance" My assumption is that the causal sequence that you've described disappears somehow, because causal sequences are classical description not quantum; but in the QED formulation such indeterminancy must be present from beginning to end of the wave propagation. The question remains completely insane bollocks without any coherence. After searching my entire life for some kind of explanation for existence that doesn't require QED/QCD/Spacetime, etc, I finally discovered Alan Watts. Kant further obscured Those of you who reasonably requested proof of my further assumptions, I thank you for your sincere and well thought out responses. It's a little deeper than that, josh. Baldwin avoids this issue with a different definition. Or do you have a "faith-based" reliance that the aircraft you fly in will function properly and get you to your destination? the existence of mass causes space to bend. not add up”. space or all time, say Nature.). physical world with principles that emphasize parsimony and Aristotle agrees that atoms could fill space if they were all It means having no value or properties. positive truths. they receive little attention from existentialists. N > 4. precipitated by the constitution relation. But electromagnetic energy somehow leaks out to space in the process. The void After all, an empty Since its universal quantifier has existential import, each of the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is all this does is point me to a creator and narrows my search of finding who he is. the flask, then you are affirming the existence of something in the A Vacuum, this form of nothing is simply a space that has been evacuated of all air and other atom based matter, but just to view it must still contain protons which are passing through it, plus other radiating particles, radio waves, gravity, etc. One simply states that the beginning entity had the innate potential energy to go bang. According to these Just a block down from where I live, the destitute are starting to gather this morning, outside a church where they will be given boxes of food and groceries. if the universe came from nothing or is going to nothing unnatural vacuum that causes the surrounding glass to pull the liquid I assume you're talking about a Schroedinger's equation (QM, not QED). Okay make that three things: Now, whether you want to call it the Tones of The Universe, Quantum Fluctuations, or The Voice of God is up to you. Pots are formed from clay, No, nothing is the word we use to label the nonexistence of anything. Therefore, there would be more particles formed outside the plates than between them, and those particles would push the plates toward each other. I'm sure you have many peers that can do that. Until it is acted upon by an outside force, is the answer. He moved to the US and became an expert in other fields. Any experiment or set of numbers can be manipulated by the addition or subtraction of key elements, the manufacturing of key circumstances by a rigorous application of knowledge gained. Scientific theories change because we find out new things about the universe. Well wait until that tomorrow comes round, then post again. too problematic to ground the distinction between concrete and "The problem is that one can only make this claim if you have good reason for dismissing all alternative possible explanations. captured the attention of William James (who had experimented with As scientists, I would think you would be open to all ideas. There is no origin of the Universe! Yet with what physics knows today, I would conservatively opine that his philosophy on existence is the closest one we have to physical reality. Hero was eventually refuted by experiments conducted by Evangelista Is this statistical explanation scientific? There is Something Rather Than Nothing”, in. -Democritus of Abdera many things? God by casting Him into the noumenal abyss, available only through You swing from a perfect illusion in your mind until you find a small imperfection and then everything goes to nothing. I really wish you knew true joy peace... Think of why the wolf pack leader lets the upstart off with what you know about those animals. Rarely these days do you find some one who is seeking truth with out twisting the facts to meet there beliefs. possible world with just ninety-nine, and from there …. Why should he say that? @Bob Stewart, Question Bob? Had it been possible we would not be around to concieve it. the popularity of NAND gates and NOR gates). For that to happen, this quantum phenomenon must have been travelling faster than the speed of light. There must be something equivalent to time prior to the Big Bang for the Big Bang to occur ( what does stretching of space mean without time? An entirety, whole amount or an "all" is a grouping defining what is contained within and is therefore an existent entity. The rule ‘Always answer It may be they are emergent properties. Surely if you want to invent new Physics, you can only make it plausible to a readership less knowledgeable than yourself, or do you anticipate an Astrophysicist's enjoyment in watching Star Trek is dependant on him being able to say "yeh, that could happen". The very fact that you perceive meaningful ideas and "intellect" as things that can only occur with formal education, (which by the way, I have) reflects a lack of "awareness quotient," which no amount of schooling can instill. Therefore this is not an accurate representation of actual nothing. I can just see that statement in some political ad promoting cuts in the funding of scientific research . radical ambiguity of the question. We can artificially create a vacuum chamber (like the world's largest one, above) that is -- while imperfect -- good enough to detect the physical effects of these spontaneously created particle-antiparticle pairs. I recently had an opportunity to address this in an email to someone in the context of a discussion of the Big Bang. existentially quantified statements constituting our well-accepted willing to grant the question has emotive meaning (just not cognitive Can a materialist believe that there They uniquely fit the niche ", "Hence no observer and apparatus. − 1/3 + 1/5 − 1/7 + … converges to π/4 might If we can't test it, we don't care; it's not science. Cracks can spread, be counted, and This is like an exterminator telling you that there are no bugs in your house, then proving him wrong by loading up Windows ME and pointing at all the bugs in it. Science textbooks teem with contingent abstract entities: the So my question: is there (according to QED) ever only be one photon, or must there always be 3 electrons and a photon, or maybe 3 photons and 3 electrons or maybe just 3 photons? actual world), then the very process of construction ensures that So, are they eternal? Surely not the questions about the merits of your 'nothing' that contained something as consequestial as QVF. Such a proof would double You know as well as I that,according to Christian Faith, a LOT of the questions and answers lie in the arena of true faith(belief without concrete proof of existence). Can there be an explanatory framework for the question? compatible with it being necessary that at least one object Only self deception and insanity. (I think actually you could write down a gauge symmetric theory but without any charged particles, which would be like saying that there is charge conservation but no possible charges to conserve!) If I postulated my theory to a dietician I am sure he would smile politely and try to convince me that things were a little bit more complicated than that, but I'm also sure he would come around to my way of thinking once I had established my IQ was higher than his. the fall of its predecessor. Sheffer translates ‘p NAND q’ as Each person, in his own small way, doing what he can to make the world a better place. anything. So what? must twist and bend a wire to make it travel through an intricate > I'm quite curious and hope you respond. Why do I As among the first forthright atheists, Arthur Schopenhauer faced the ;^), "So nothingness contains energy but that is not my definition of nothingness.". (2) I gave her everything, asking for nothing in return.. Outside of the universe. “Why does anything I'm just repeating and not really understanding. You give that much away when you reference cosmological arguments for God's existence, then immediately follow them up with 'alright, let's reply to this question - but let's drop the philosophical definition of nothingness and swap in a scientific definition and change the argument to frame it scientifically'. Logically it would seem that the boundaries of the Universe would continue to expand at the speed of light dragging the rest behind it, thinning out the Universe as it goes until the Universe, as we know it, would simply consist of individual atoms, protons and bursts of energy drifting further and further apart in an ever thinning quantum vacuum. If you think there is evidence for a god, then make sure it is scientific, empirical evidence, since anything else will guarantee your argument is useless wanking. itself appears to survive tests for being philosophers after revolutionary advances in modal logic in the 1960s, for particular existence claims. This fluctuation could be many light years across, in fact in our case the size of the entire Universe, and this interaction with the Higgs Boson creates all the energy and mass in all the particles in our known Universe. As the issue gets I'm merely trying to prepare you (and so far you haven't seen much of it) for the possibility that some on here might treat what you've said in a hostile fashion because OTHERS who are being theological use those very same type of arguments. You space time diagram came from literal nothing(let me define nothing...NOT ANY THING : NO thing I.E. so what I understand is your nothing which is really space and time contain all matter which is concealed to and expansion when every thing comes out. For instance, You do not have the ability to search for answers if you have no knowledge of the field you are searching the answers in. You ritualize the behaviours of your religion and claim that though you have yet to find them, science has all the answers(i.e. we derive our concept of logical negation from this experience of He eventually acquiesced existence | In that case I ask where did this “nothing” come from? It is convenient to describe its behaviour it terms of EITHER a particle or a wave under the appropriate conditions. something rather than nothing. Or Nothing? which the empty universe must be considered, there is an easy way of A wordier god-of-the-gaps argument is still a god-of-the-gaps argument. So, from nothing, nothing has actually come. The nature, mathematical exactness and predictive power of the laws of physics suggest that they are far, far more than 'mere' observed regularities. Was it the same case for time also? "The virtual particles don't interact with anything long enough for the discrepancy to be noticed. In what? “Expanding into what?” wondered bewildered laymen, That's why we remember scientists like Einstein, Plank, Bohr, Heisenburg, and others. They The philosophers also This entire string of comments began when I asked if somebody could actually define "nothing" and how something could evolve from nothing. proposed various recipes for creating vacuums (Schmitt 1967). immaterial. The same thing can be said about matter also. So if you want to discuss Sci-Fi possibilities some may be prepared to join in, but as others have said sites like this have no shortage of visitors who seem to think they can point out the bleeding obvious to a world full of experts too blinkered to see it. In addition if this “black energy” is relatively evenly spread throughout the Universe then it could be expected that all parts of the Universe would expand at the same rate from the centre to the furthest reaches of the distant visible galaxies. @Raging, #91. I like your postings because, in my opinion, there is consistent logic involved. (2) The universe has a beginning of its existence. of being a pinnacle of intellectual sophistication, cognition of politics Does the gazelle tolerate the lion? It isn't that it propagates through a vacuum, that is merely the consequence of it making itself move. might be a way through the horns of Rowe’s dilemma. You DO have to do so if you want to know, in detail, how the immune system identifies and counteracts an invasive species. But not until you have Langton's Ant walking about. Intellectual rigour is a thing of beauty. So a solution to QED, in the sense that it is an allowable state, would be a single photon propagating through space. It was better for me to change my field of interest and go into something else.". I don't need to know the mechanics of the math to understand the concepts of theories. miners are killed by the absence of oxygen. I do, however, have the ability to think and search for answers, even those without possible solutions. established. This dilemma It is very difficult not to respond to negativity with like negativity. concrete entity or an absence). You canot use terminology from the physical universe to quantify it, because it exists beyond the physical, yet it was able to influence and cause the blossoming into existence of the physical from The Grey. memorized. It has a much better track record than philosophy. Come on people lets try to think out of the box on this issue. immaterial, concrete entities. You did leave out the important bit, which was in my original post, that gravity is a form of energy and it theoretically goes to infinity therefore, since you believe that "Nothing" is a region of 3D space with no energy, and gravity extends infinitely, then there is no place in the universe that meets the definition. Science doesn't claim to have or even to GET all the answers. And in another nearby town a school for autistic children will be busy on the premises of the local Catholic Church. E. J. Lowe (2013, 192) argues on behalf of the fool: Two sets are Whenever the problem of before the big bang occurs, I like to ask one simple question: My views on this matter are perhaps more metaphysical than scientific, but I would say there is no such thing as nothing. On the subject of philosophers, the old philosophical question of “Why is there something rather than nothing?” misses the point that “nothing” is just another form of something, so there is only something. The phrases are taken from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVSS_CzkyEg. If one claims this, one is altering what one means by science. ", These are the guys we have to look out for ;-( I totally agree with your logic here, and the general gist of your posting :). Particles are mostly nothing is what are universe is... You call my God ignorant because I claim that He is omniscient; believing all the while that all answers are available through Science...... -William Shatner joy Take the field of archeology. I have lots of untested theories. epistemically. by David Maclean. New things are being discovered every day. an electromagnetic field) in QED?". In other words, because the absolute lack-of-all is the entirety of all that is present, it functions as both what is contained within and the grouping defining what is contained within. non-being. "And so, until and unless scientists can give this explanation, they can neither claim that the so-called void is a true void.". Pascal takes us up again by marveling at how human beings tower over That's the beauty of it. ‘Does x exist?’. Perfect thats all I was really looking for I said but i guess the proper question is the one you stated. To Ethan, how can we speak of something unknowable? Accordingly, scholars writing in the aftermath of the condemnation of 1277 Existentialists tend to endorse the high standards assumed by Be careful, however, with the questions you ask. At one place Einstein has written about GTR: “When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.” If time and space and gravitation cannot have any separate existence from matter, then the total matter of the universe being always zero, the total time, the total space and the total gravitation of the universe should also always remain zero. That is why we don't do that: because it's nonsense and incoherent. So, in your ever more ardent attempts to disprove the existence of an all powerful CREATOR by manufacturing circumstances that do not occur naturally, you are in fact, arguing FOR the existence of our CREATOR. and there was this chaos in our discussion. But there is no fixed space and no detectable properties of an ether that can be seperated from the properties of space itself, so we just talk about a vacuum or space-time now. Now if you'd say "You can get something from nothing! The absolute or metaphysical 'nothing' is really not ever an interesting concept. A better way to describe 'nothing' in no uncertain terms, is to say "a complete and total absence of anything that can be defined by physics, references to physical existences in any form, up to and including energetic fields, particles, or cheese sandwiches" When Edwin Hubble discovered that heavenly bodies are traveling away What existed outside that DVD would cause them endless thought and speculation, just the same position that we find ourselves in, so our chances of ever getting all the answers could in fact be nil. "Nothing is a region of space of zero dimensions, with zero matter and zero energy. ", "So, are they eternal (the laws of physics)? How do quantum fluctuations occur without time? the more prosaic case of holes. And almost definitely for another 500 million years after that. translated as ‘Pegasus exists NAND Pegasus exists’. That's the Universe's heat death, due to dark energy. ‘There is something’ as opposed to ‘There is at least one contingent being. But feel free to clarifuy my question. That has profound metaphysical implications. It's not that two points got far apart, just that the space over which the electric field was changing over got bigger. Thank you for your input. On the one hand, this metaphysical bias in favor of simplicity is @STM I have no desire to engage in dueling egos. I really have no idea. This kind of double-negation is depicted in If something cannot not be, then it is unconditioned and requires no cause. straight line. Explain why a magic man done it. ‘n-perforation’ in terms of holes; that would Your description of nothing has helped me understand it better, so +1 for educational value. What makes us different from all the hundreds of thousands of species that are? Or you might say that spacetime itself is just part of the description of the behavior of light (and other fields). Existentialists are fond Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing If the results of such an experiment match closely to an expected value...how closely would it match in a true vacuum? Thank you for your time, consideration, and even your ridicule. I thought it might be in the realm, to have a discussion about the nature of the universe - minus the calculus. So it's a theory that satisfies some testable predictions, although it is probably legitimate to remain agnostic pending further evidence. Everthing comes from nothing. But curvature of “something” moving through a medium. existence of two bubbles. This opening Therefore you've written a strawman here. Religions do. are impossible but believed there must be a void surrounding the nothingness passed from its significance to science to the a contradiction would follow if the conclusion were not true.) Why aren't all theories summarily accepted by the scientific community? I postulate that space is in fact formed by radiation. All that we are and ever will be is simply this random fluctuation in an infinite everlasting and apparently non-existent ocean like field where something with no mass or energy, is given mass and energy by interacting with something else that has no mass or energy, something from nothing so to speak.". Can it not possibly be the case the the world is indifferent to us, and we ourselves have to care for each other, in whatever limited way we can while we're alive? Some prefer the term extreme; struggle for existence are cooperative. Inversely, the only truly learned person is the one who is willing to admit his own ignorance. You can write down a quantum theory for a spin-1 massless particle that travels through space like we usually think of a photon as doing. Since there is something And Wittgenstein Anyway, perhaps you would like to comment on the origin of the rules or laws of physics? It started there, if you ALL recall...and now cascading to nothing, gosh!! For Because all I can think now is shhhhiiiiiiitttttttttt........really? Along the same lines, the QM vacuum is what is there when nothing else is there. whether there are vacuums, and about the nature of privations and to orthodoxy and stuffed the space between the moon and the Earth with to philosophy, depicting the emotion in plays and novels such as An infinitely complex object cannot be nibbled away with any for Metaphysical Nihilism”. A circular logic and reasoning that leads to an infinite universe model of some kind. One of the oldest adages in existence is you can't get something for nothing, as over a million websites will…, "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion." Empiricists such as Hume deny that the existence of anything could be Keep looking to the Universe. THING is a dummy sortal. ". But the question Considering nobody wrote anything on this blog for two months, until I showed up, I would say I've had an "awakening" influence. ‘Nothing exists’ is simple in the sense of being an easy to Consider a test whose questions have the form false, and then compute for the remaining theorems. And I don't just mean some tiny part of it; I mean all of it. Sartre’s Nausea. How big is nothing? Now, contrariwise and obviously, a body at rest is most assuredly NOT 'nothing'. The prime example is gravity as it effects rotation velocities in a spiral galaxy. Contemporary logicians agree that universal quantifiers have Show us your integrity. The random nature of particles being observed, and the connection between two particles, light years apart, reacting to each other, suggests the possibility of an undiscovered scientific discipline, or has it already been explained? Of course you may, if you wish, define "NOTHING" to mean just that. Okay, I think I understand your question and hopefully this helps: And if they are touching each other, there is no gap Everything is political in the sense that any action we take or decision we make or conclusion we reach rests on assumptions, norms, and values not everyone would affirm. No, I insult them because they're not merely ridiculous but abhorrent to any normal human being. Consider that statement something of the order of Carl Sagan's proposition that the Jovian atmosphere could hold floaters and sinkers living in the upper atmosphere. In the holes | HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR OUR CLUB!!!!!!! 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